Best clear & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

“Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities”

Ifs Mind Self Use Light Universe Perfect Quality Clear Meditation Buddhism Infinite Originals Coming Back Sense Of Self Radiant Identifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.”

“The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.”

Source: Carpe Diem: Seize the Day

“I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.”

Years Firsts Self Character Bigs Views Clear Inner Self Disappearance Clear View Blinkers

Author:Paul Klee

“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”

Self Truth Clear Honesty Acceptance Ignorance Truth Is Shining Remove Surround Evident Ultimate Truth Cobwebs

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work.”

Ifs Wells May Self Order Morning Clear Fields Scientist Affair Satisfaction Make Sense Fallen Skepticism Roof Good Work Back Again Tuesday Self-satisfaction Tuesday Morning

Author:Lewis Thomas

“With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains”

Self Problem Clear Focus Discipline Training Gains Overcoming Unexpected Mma Self Discipline

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.”

Self Father Ability Clear Son Judgment Conscience Critics Ease Motive Self Control Discernment Good Judgment Clear Conscience

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.”

Giving Self Christian Belief Clear Morality Giving Up Oneself Spite Latter Again And Again Evident Christian Morality

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.”

Ideas Self Use Names Clear Politician Drawing Newspapers Portraits Angle Sketching Caption

Author:Siegfried Woldhek

“See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.”

Littles Self Born Clear Elements Rose Rounds Native Regions Shed Globes Careless Bosoms Dew Mansions

Author:Andrew Marvell

“It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.”

Should Self Dark Effort Consciousness Clear Intention Screens Stubborn Compact

Author:Eric Hoffer

“It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.”

“[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.”

Source: Darkness and the light

“To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears are just a superimposition that is called 'myself.' When all that disappears, for at least a moment, your Self shines forth. Radiantly, clear, and empty. Needing nothing, nourished, and overflowing.”

Heart Self Moments Feelings Desire Silence Clear Empty Shining Disappear Trust Yourself

Author:Eli Jaxon-Bear

“There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.”

Heart Self Reality Lying Interest Clear Fundamentals Unity Connected Dues Self Interest Interconnectedness

Author:Dalai Lama

“For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.”

Soul Self Light Eye Speak Clear Air Feet Expression Ears Dear Loud Grass Organs Sole Mud Carpet Self Expression Residents Scorned Asphalt

Author:Barbara Holland

“It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.”

Mind Self Struggle Clear Ignorance Mass Blue Glorious Heavenly Occupation Preaching Sustaining Inquiring Inquiring Minds

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.”

“Many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential. So whether you get your hair done less or your hair cut less, or your nails done less, as a writer and a speaker I was very clear that corporations weren't being as open and as generous and I wasn't getting the kind of work that I usually got.”

People Kind Self Done Clear Cutting Hair Corporations Generous Speakers Nails Employed Hair Cut Nails Done

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Writing Self Faces Wish Deals Powerful Fiction Gone Clear Doubt Theory Intellectual Tools Institutions Discrimination Most Powerful Non Fiction Self-doubt

Author:Bell Hooks

“Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.”

People Ifs Way Want Mean Self Action Virtue Clear Hero Hollywood Capitalist Virtuous

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.”

Self Views Clear Mountain Clear View

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.”

Writing Self Process Clear Influence Higher Intention Higher Self Self Will

Author:Genevieve

“My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition, or interest. Thanks are due not to me, but Thee, from whom all I possess is derived. And what are the paltry gifts for which my neighbor forgets to thank me, compared with the immense blessings for which I have so often forgotten to be grateful to Thee!”

“The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.”

Self Understanding Nature Clear Impossible Essentials Intellectual Experience Philosophical Method Self Realization Realization Accomplished Entrances Grasping

Book:The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

Source: The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

“Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.”

Mind Ends Self Helping Clear Meditation Awareness Buddhism Daily Life Seals Mantras Deep Within Chanting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.”

“A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.”

Self Done Issues Clear Ought Abuse Meetings Environmental Guilty Realization Occasions Protest Righteousness Stewardship Self Righteousness Accusers Smog Convocation

Author:Wendell Berry

“I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.”

Knows Feels Self Feelings Clear Focus Surface Closets Cleaning

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful.”

Ifs Way Doe Self Sometimes Actors Watches Clear Conscious Careless Self Conscious Disadvantages Concise

Author:Sarah Polley

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

“I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.”

People Ifs Way Long Made Self Would Be Wanted Film Stars Clear Fans Directors Understood Okay Revenge My Way Comment Commentary Dvds Paramount Minutiae Snicket Dreamworks Getting Revenge

Author:Daniel Handler

“From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.”

Way Real Self Enough God Body Seems Science Knowledge Clear Duty Creatures Discovery Essence Obvious Rational Internals Faculty Penetrate Adapted

Book:An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

“A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.”

Source: Memoir of William Ellery Channing: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts

“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.”

“A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.”

Stills Self Father Clear Eating Hungry Satisfied Self Control

Author:John Cassian

“I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.”

Thinking Want Writing Kind Self Fiction Clear Awareness Involved Self Awareness Thrown Traps Writing Fiction Writing Poetry Tainted Irresponsibility

Author:Ben Lerner

“[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict.”

Firsts Children Self States Helping Individual Parent Goal Cases Clear Modern Century Duty Conflict Commitment Tests Treatment Self Control Puritan 17th Century

Author:C. Sommerville

“The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.”

“The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.”

Ends Self Hands Clear Remains Palms Annihilation Illusory

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Let's be clear about what people never say about Playboy on television. It was nothing more than an instrument for onanism. That's what it was. And the Internet co-opted that industry of self- gratification. There is no necessity for lonely men or teenagers to use Playboy. It turns out no one bought that magazine for the articles ever; it was used for only one thing.”

People Men Self Use Used Turns Clear One Thing Television Industry Internet Lonely Instruments Magazines Teenager Articles Gratification Playboy Lonely Man Self Gratification

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.”

Want Needs Self Clear Circles Aspiration Materialism Pits Gratification Self Gratification

Author:Mario Cuomo

“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.”

Want Feels Believe Persons Self Sometimes Seems Spiritual Wish Loss Clear Approach Scales Familiar Recognition Void Shocked Seekers Dissolution Recoil

Book:The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is

Source: The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is

“You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.”

Self Interest Clear Definitions Self Interest

Book:Communion with God

Source: Communion with God

“No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.”

“Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.”

Ifs World Should May Littles Long Self Clear Kings Ambition Glory Spread Worthy Supreme Kingdoms Acquire Righteousness Cherish Honour Ambitious Modest Inappropriate

Author:John Stott

“But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, but the ability to transmit that selfunderstanding to others...To experience yourself as "voiceless" is a definition of depression, subjugation, and being counted out. .”

Self Moments Political Understanding Voice Ability Clear Findings Definitions Awake Transmit Voiceless Self Understanding Subjugation Experience Yourself

Author:Mary Rose O'Reilley

“Running will make you stronger, more disciplined & clear headed all of which will improve your professional output & expand your self-faith”

Self Running Clear Stronger Output Makes You Stronger

Author:Sarah Slean

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