Quotes About Reflection

What we're seeing out there is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

A moment's reflection will show you that you play many roles in the course of a day . . . and that who you are from moment to moment changes. There is the angry you, and the kind you, the lazy you, the lustful you—hundreds of different you's. Gurdjieff points out that sometimes one "you" does something for which all the other "you's" must pay for years or possibly the rest of this life.

Ephrem the Syrian says, 'Good speech is silver, but silence is pure gold.' "—Way of a Pilgrim

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.

This getting straight not only applies to people but to things as well, such as favorite music, disliked foods, special treats, avoided places, all your toys, etc. Everything must be rerun through your compassion machine.

Allow that you are at this moment not in the wrong place in your life. Consider the possibility that there have been no errors in the game. Just consider it. Consider that there is not an error, and everything that's come down on your plate is the way it is and here we are.

To reconnect consciousness with the unconscious, to make consciousness symbolical is to reconnect words with silence; to let the silence in. If consciousness is all words and no silence, the unconscious remains unconscious."—N.O. Brown

The quieter you become the more you can hear.

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. -Ram Dass

If you observe well, your own heart will answer."—de Lubicz

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

You can stay in touch with your soul by dwelling in the moment.

Whatever you need to do to get ready to die, you should have done it a minute ago. Do it now and get ready. Every moment is the moment you die. Every breath is the first and last. A conscious being holds on nowhere.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain—to just be with it all.

the journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth

The freaky thing about death is the anticipatory fear of it.

Perhaps the most appropriate initial step in view of your present predicament is to continue with you daily life in the customary manner with the simple addition of a mantra. Such a mantra can initially be used for 15 minutes in the morning and evening as suggested by Maharishi Mahesh in his program for Transcendental Meditation. You can set up a corner of your room for this purpose.

I am the thought I.

It's not the crow's feet under your eyes that make you old, Or the gray in your hair, I'm told. But when your mind makes a contract your body can't fill, You're over the hill, brother, you're over the hill.

Instead of always preoccupying ourselves with trying to get what we think we want or need, we'll start to quiet, we'll start to listen. We'll wait for that inner prompting. We'll try to hear, rather than decide, what it is we should do next.

Above all, man must learn once again what he is and why he was created.