Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.
It is much more rewarding to get to the top of the mountain and share your experience with others than to show up by yourself, exausted.
(n.) Clearness; brightness; splendor.
The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your frien...
Risk may bring pain, but risk also brings freedom and reward.
Clarity affords focus.
The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard the turbulence. From far away you see the pattern, the connections, and the thi...
Confidence brings comfort and clarity.
What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
But as I began to write this book, I realised that without the whole truth my life would have no power, no real meaning. With the help of my mother, the memories of our lives in North Korea and China...
Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather...
...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.