Quotes About Reflection

My flag is raised high today. For others to see, sure. But more so to find which way my wind is blowing. Almost time to chart a course.

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved.

Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.

Try to take it one step at a time. Even looking two steps ahead can be very intimidating, know what I mean? Breathe more deeply, drink more water, meditate more often. Take it easy. You're not struggling to climb from hell into heaven, you're just having an in-the-body experience. It's not evil, it's just life, and when it's over, you die; easy as falling off a log.

Nobody likes to have their cherished beliefs dumped on, but dumping on cherished beliefs is the name of the game.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

The reason for writing it down on paper or on a computer where you can see it is because the brain, unlikely as it may sound, is no place for serious thinking. Any time you have serious thinking to do, the first step is to get the whole shootin' match out of your head and set it up someplace where you can walk around it and see it from all sides. Attack, switch sides and counter-attack. You can't do that while it's still in your head.

Yes, I have an ego and it looks similar to the one I dropped to, as you say, achieve nirvana. But then I came back all enlightened and everything, and I needed something to wear. I look around and there's my discarded ego lying in a pile on the floor so I slip into it and here I am.

A poem by Ryokan comes to mind: Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out. One of my favorites.

Life has only one form: forgetting,

Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

wat een ogen en dat is ten slotte van groter belang dan iets anders, want ogen blijven mooi tot op het laatst en dat is soms een hele tijd...

People should always consider returning home.

I don't hate you. I don't know that I understand you yet. I may never. But I will try. But I'm not sure what my next step is.

I had the worst study habits in the history of college, until I found out what I was doing wrong: highlighting with black magic marker.

You are learning what you aren't writing, and this is helping you find out what you are writing. —Anne Lamott

As a software developer, you are your own worst enemy. The sooner you realize that, the better off you'll be.

Either do it or don't do it. You'll regret it either way

The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are.

Remember who you are. - Kim Clark Dean of Harvard Business School.