You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
Interpretation
Being overly focused can cloud your judgment and perception.
This quote suggests that sometimes, having too much information or being overly critical can lead to confusion rather than clarity. It implies that the ability to perceive and understand situations often requires balance and restraint, rather than an overwhelming rush to observe everything at once.
In practice
In a leadership seminar discussing decision-making processes.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
The fancies of wine are authentic events.
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
Think about what you're passionate about. I did not learn something early enough: if I could go back, I'd tell the younger me that there's a big difference between loving to work and loving the work.
Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
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