Quotes About Reflection

Si quieres saber cómo pensabas antes, mira tu cuerpo ahora. Si quieres saber cómo será tu cuerpo en el futuro, examina lo que piensas hoy».

Como especie, deberíamos tomarnos un rato cada día para dar gracias por ese asombroso órgano que funciona en el interior de nuestra cabeza.

Everything that exists somewhere in the world also exists in us.

The real business of life, however, is to find out who you really are.

Spiritual teachers tell us if you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you. If you want to know the state of the collective consciousness, just look around at what is happening in the world. At any given point in time your personal reality is synchronistically, coincidentally orchestrated by your sense of self.

The voice of silence speaks clearly in those moments, and you can ask it to speak anytime you want. In time it will become the voice you trust more than anything else.

Ask yourself, if money was no concern and you had all the time and money in the world, what would you do? If you would still do what you currently do, then you are in dharma, because you have passion for what you do — you are expressing your unique talents. Then ask yourself: How am I best suited to serve humanity? Answer that question, and put it into practice.

Innocence is our natural state, before it becomes covered over. What covers it over is self-image. When we look at ourselves, even when we're trying to be completely honest, we see an image built up over many years, in layers that are complexly woven together. The lines and wrinkles that develop in a person's face tell the story of past happiness and sadness, triumph and defeat, ideals and experiences. It is almost impossible to see anything else.

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I" must surrender every claim of the ego, whether public or private, to seek a higher state of consciousness.

The idol of yourself is the mother of all idols.

As their bodies faded, he saw something else more clearly. Each person carried an invisible burden. The young monk was amazed that he hadn't seen it before. Everyone walked or rode with their lives on their shoulders, a pack of memories that spilled over with disappointment and sorrow. This one had never recovered from losing a wife in childbirth. That one was afraid of starving. That other one

you need to assess what you can fix, what you must put up with, and what you should walk away from.

Of course he could still conjure up the old faces. But they didn't return on their own anymore. In order to see images of Channa or Suddhodana, he would ask to see them. "Learn to use your memories," he told the younger bikkhus. "Don't let them use you.

Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.

What you most hate is what you most deny in yourself. What you most love is what you most wish for in yourself.

In an ideal world everyone would ask "Who am I?" every day, and since "I" is constantly shifting, each new day would bring a new answer.

does a world without spiritual power force us to seek distraction because underneath, we do not know the answers at all?

No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you.

re-examine everything you think will get you ahead in life—money, possessions, status, accomplishments—and see them as a source of suffering

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

The ultimate mystery of love is that by looking deeply into yourself, you find out who you are, but then that self is given away, offered in love.

Psychologically, stress results whenever anxiety about the future or regrets about the past are invoked.

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.