clarity

Clarity affords focus.

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.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

I'm not convinced that the universe is balanced. Maybe for the universe to be balanced, first we need to be balanced, becauseit's only then can balance really be delivered. I'm pretty sure if I view the world as a bitter, twisted individual, all I will meet are other bitter, twisted people. When I acknowledge my emtions, but embrace awareness I find balance. When I fight my emotions I find imbalance.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she'd written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.

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 sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

No matter what there always seems to be something clouding my existence, nothing is ever clear.

The fog eventually clears itself.

For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

A few steps back is sometimes needed to find clarity in the confusion.