Learning Quote by Huangbo Xiyun

Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets…

— Octavio Paz

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and…

— Francis Bacon

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

— Chogyam Trungpa

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges…

— Tom Stoppard

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either…

— Plato

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

— Eckhart Tolle

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle...

— Mooji

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“I could almost see fairies skipping on top of the snake-tongue flames—brief moments of clarity overcome by suffocating normalcy. It occurred to me that…

— Christopher Hawke

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

— Bruce Lee

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision.…

— Bodhidharma