Quotes About Reflection

How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at the passing scenery. "But everyplace else...

Instead of Freud's famous Interpretation of Dreams it is a book of dreams that interprets us.

In the midst of a thousand clouds and countless waters there is an idle person. By day, he roams the green mountains, at night, he returns to sleep beneath the cliff. Quickly, the seasons pass in serenity, with no worldly bonds. How joyful! What does he depend upon? Quiet, like a large autumn river.

amelioration." The diary entry is a remarkable indication that

Like most of us, he had a large blind spot about his own faults.

breakthroughs come when people learn how to take the time to stop and examine their assumptions.

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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Feelings' in worship should be our response to things we understand and appreciate in our minds.

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.

This world is painted on a wild dark metal

And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves.

My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.

There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.

The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could go back and ask her about her life, fill in all those gaps. But of course, you can't go back.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

You will know your state of mind when you wash the dishes. Your care or your impatience; your attention or your distraction. You will see yourself, at that moment, clearly.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

What is life except excuse for death, or death except escape from life?' Recall my name with kindness now and then.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.