Quotes About Reflection

I've been thinking." Tapping his booted toes together, he tilted his head on the cushion. "Thinking what?" Looking to the side, she clutched her coat a little tighter. "I've been thinking that being a country doctor might be a rather nice change of pace." The tapping stopped. His body stilled. "What are you saying?" She looked at him. "That I'd go to Texas with you if the offer is still good.

There was nothing quite so humbling as Job 38 and 39.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Walk with those who are looking for the truth, run from those who think they have found it.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already thereóburied under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

Walk with those seeking truth... RUN FROM THOSE WHO THINK THEY'VE FOUND IT.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

Don't let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

The world 'out there' won't change until the world 'in here' does.

Begin by asking yourself, "What message is the universe giving me? What can I learn from this experience, and how can I make it useful to my fellow human beings?

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

I want to know God's thoughts … the rest are details.

Witness the choices you make in every moment. The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.