Quotes About Reflection

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of love.

You can't simply put a book down or away.

To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.

If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility, allow them gracious entrance however strident or discordant some of them may sound, then you will grow and change, and each of these voices will become a constituent part of who you become, an atom of growing being. It is literature and only literature than can do this.

Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what we can become.

There is possibly nothing that can so radically change the Church and the lives of individual believers as having our criticisms changed into intercession

Neither does He call man to observe Sabbaths simply for a cessation of labor, but rather for the purpose of drawing near to Him from whom our true sustenance comes.

The past was so past it hurt.

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Normally, I am a little insecure about myself without a shirt on, as my days of being attractive are now behind me.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

With humility, you are better able to enjoy and understand success, and you are better able to examine and handle failure.

Humility stops you from overestimating your own significance and it enables you to accept, understand, and live with failures and learn from them constructively.

What is so broken about me? So unlikable? Why does it still hurt?

Go ahead, kill me! But live with this: All those people die! For the rest of your life, somewhere behind the feeds, that human part of you hiding down deep will always wonder how much pain you could have prevented if you hadn't been so weak!

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.