Quotes About Reflection

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?

Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts.

No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.

you how to get it yourself, that's of great benefit.) Our lives are transformed when we come to ourselves—when we awaken to God in ourselves. This is the path that Jesus walked, and bid us to follow. This is the way of salvation.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright, who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, vor dem man laut denken kann.

If a person is constantly reading and absorbing the thoughts of others, their growth will be stunted. In order to fully develop, we need periods of solitude, self-inquiry, and recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

They are lonely; the spirit of their writing and conversation is lonely; they repel influences; they shun general society; they incline to shut themselves in their chamber in the house, to live in the country rather than in the town, and to find their tasks and amusements in solitude.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.