Quotes About Reflection

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

One day a Japanese guard came into the 20-year-old Moitessier's cell intending to kill him. He raised his pistol, but they locked eyes until, inexplicably, the guard lowered the pistol and walked away. Now, years later, tenderized by solitude, Moitessier wished he had spared the rat.

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When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

Höss found himself going hot and cold and trembling as he was forced to watch from the front rank; it affected him far more than the first execution he witnessed.

Men frequently get lost in their thoughts and go to far-off places in their minds without even realizing the journey has started or considering the consequences.

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

Knowing" can be useful, but learning not to know creates a powerful openness that is inconceivable until it is experienced.

Again, I invite you to consider that if you can identify with character traits, qualities, thinking, or experiences other than what you identify with now, then you must not actually be any of these elements. If this is so, who are you? What are you? If you try to pin down who you really are, you will search your mind and attempt to grab onto an idea, or feeling, or sense. Yet that very idea, feeling, or sense itself can be let go, and so it can't be you either. See how this works?

And, if the "programming" (our beliefs) is flawed or the data is incorrect, then false conclusions will show up in place of what's true. Perceptions will be biased, but will appear to simply reflect reality.

When self becomes confused with mind, and mind becomes seen as the self, the mind's self-serving activities end up creating an experience of reality that is entirely self-referential.

The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.

I have just finished "All the Colors of Darkness" 090209

Peter Robinson

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

He was at an age when every odd ache or pain brought a little more fear than it had before, when colds lingered and settled on the chest.

If you were to live your life like a prayer, every action a sort of prayer, it would be easy to believe that all your thoughts were the words of God. Perhaps they would be.

Here in the notebooks I've let it out, I've collected all these different words. The ones in the yellow notebook, they found me, they find me still. They are the words that came from beyond, because I was ready to receive them. And then the rest of the words, these words I'm writing now--they don't feel so different, they also come through me. I listen in; I intercept them. I receive these words and send them out again, so they can reach the next person.

Animals, like humans, make in life the mistakes that will ultimately lead to their death, either physically or on a spiritual and emotional level. People and animals that stay on the same paths in life will eventually wear themselves into ruts. Soon the ruts become so deep that the people can no longer see over the sides. They see neither danger, or beauty, only the path before them because they fear losing their security and are afraid to enter the land of the unknown.

This is one reason Father wears the piece of mirror taped to the top of his engineer's cap, so it reflects back up whoever's face is trying to look down at him. As he walks the sun reflects in the mirror and slides shining lights all along the brick wall above his head. If he bends down to tie his shoes it can hit you sharp in the eyes.