Quotes About Reflection

If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. You are where you are right now financially as a sum total of the decisions you've made to this point.

She had the opportunity to spend time at Jesus' feet, and, instead, she's doing the dishes. I've done that! I've been so blinded by the work that I've totally missed the real blessing in a situation. That's what we do when we think that money or wealth or possessions or God's favor and blessings come only from our performance.

The day you decide to lock yourself in your prayer closet to spend some quality time with the Lord in prayer — that is the day you will enter Heaven's classroom here on earth with the Holy Spirit as your Teacher.

A journey of self-discovery is never pointless, Prince Zuko. However dim your path may seem, and however far you may wander from it...the important thing is that you learn from all of your mistakes along the way and never forget for one moment who you are, or what you are struggling to be.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." In other words, today's progressives have now become the sexists and racists they've claimed to hate.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

Solitude is a powerful thing. People who can't use solitude always have to find some kind of bullshit to do.

Mr. Shelton thought for a moment.

Admission to the school of self-inquiry is dependent rather on our motivation, willingness, and effort to explore the inner dimensions of our being.

Understanding arises out of silence rather than words.

One day the Buddha came across an ascetic who sat by the bank of a river, and who had practiced austerities for twenty-five years. The Buddha asked him what he had got out of all his labor. The ascetic proudly replied that now at last he could cross the river by walking on the water. The Buddha tried to point out that this was little gain for so much labor, since for one penny the ferry would take him across.

When we find a way to quiet the mind, then awareness immediately expands and fills the vacuum.

The ultimate consequence of misology is a kind of self-destruction in which what is destroyed is that aspect of the self represented by active reason

America sure was a funny place to look at when you got far enough away,

All I know is that there is comfort in knowing one's place in the universe, even if that means our light is less beautiful than it otherwise would have been. What say you, then, of the night sky?

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is you're stupid and make bad choices.

ANY NATION THAT FAILS TO LEARN FROM HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT THAT HISTORY.

Remembering is the only way to defeat the death.

Sa prošloš?u, me?utim, ?ovek nikada ne sme da bude siguran. Ona nije, ube?en sam, tako nepromenljiva kao što se ?esto ?uje, ve? se rado, mada u krajnje svedenom obliku, menja i tako uti?e na ne?iju sadašnjost i budu?nost.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henri Bergson

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. —Leonardo da Vinci