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Insight
Insight is the sudden inward seeing that reorganizes everything, the flash in which a truth long circled is at last beheld. It is not new information but new vision, the same facts seen from a height that makes their pattern plain. The contemplative traditions are built to provoke it: hold a single question rigorously, watch the breath with bare noting, dwell inwardly on an aspect of the real, and wait for the dawning. Insight cannot be forced, but it can be invited by a mind made still and receptive.
Carried by 22 teachers · across 5 traditions · 13 quotes
What insight reveals it also frees. To see clearly into the nature of a fear, a craving, or the self itself is to be loosened from its grip; understanding, deeply realized, dissolves what mere willpower cannot. The meditator notes and labels until the constructed quality of experience becomes obvious; the inquirer asks who am I until the questioner is seen through. This is why the wisdom traditions prize insight above belief: belief is held, but insight is undergone, and what is undergone changes you. To cultivate insight is to keep listening for the fresh realization that is always one quiet moment away.
In their words
The optimist, by his superior wisdom and insight, is making his own heaven, and in the degree that he makes his own heaven is he helping to make one for all the world beside.Ralph Waldo Trine
Find out who you are by asking 'Who am I?' and abide as that.Ramana Maharshi
What method is necessary in order to impress the subconscious? Mentally state what is wanted.Charles F. Haanel
Seeing there is a three-fold World, Elementary, Celestiall, and Intellectual, and every inferior is governed by its superior.Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever.Jiddu Krishnamurti