Quotes About Reflection

And now, each night I count the stars, And each night I get the same number. And when they will not come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.

Childhood is like a mist in so many ways. A mist in which a you is moving to become another you.

When one remembers a scene from the past in which one is with a loved one who is now dead, it is not like a memory at all, but like a dream one is having before his death, a premonition. In this dream which preceded death, the person is tranquil and happy, and yet, without reason, you know he is to die. When we recall the dead, the past becomes a dream we are dreaming foretelling death, though in our waking moments we cannot properly interpret it or give it significance.

Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as if a part of us that was air and breeze had been denied entry.

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.

Anyway, if Calcutta today suffers in comparison, it's not really to other cities, but principally to itself and what it used to be. Anyone who has an idea of what Calcutta once was will find that vanished Calcutta the single most insurmountable obstacle to understanding, or sympathising with, the city today.

You want to know of Death? Well, I shall save my breath. When you know Life, why then, We'll talk of Death again. Confucius

Be the observer of your own mind. Attune yourself with the unchanging Self.

Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Majority has no brain. It is just a momentum. Always recheck majority with morality.

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

We all are so deeply interconnected, do good for any one. That will be reflected.

You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen 24x7 clean, clear and relaxed.

You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and relaxed.

Your dreams are not just the rearrangement of memory. They are the vibrations of your consciousness. Guide them and go for the higher one.

I found myself yearning for the time, no, not the time, for the life that has gone by.

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.

After Georgie, something had changed in our marriage, and there was nowhere solid to put the blame. We were almost forty, and simultaneously our marriage had - I don' know - thickened, agglutinated, become oatmeal-like. Differences between us that had once provided sparks now seemed inefficient. Was there love? Yes, yes - but at the margins. At the center, there was administration.

Where does a mistake begin?" his wife asks at the start of the book. "Did my mistake begin with the boat? Or my marriage itself?