Quotes About Reflection

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

The only journey is the one within.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

to therapists who made you write letters telling your parents you forgave them even though they'd wasted the most potentially wondrous years of their lives running after you like a pair of underpaid waiters at that same hotel buffet you didn't even know

The suns and stars of the physical worlds are but pale reflections of the inner lights of the higher realms and of our own soul.

The result of meditation and ethical living is that our soul becomes like a pure spotless glass, reflecting the light of the God. Then, the light burning within us shines its sacred flame of bliss and love to light our pathway to the Divine

If you don't go within you go without.

Anger most hurts the sender.

In meditation we turn off the channel of the world and switch on the channel of God.

The journey begins by looking inside to find that guiding light of the Divine spark within us. The practice that leads us to that spark is meditation on the inner light and sound

Dheedo says: 'Moments that sail past do not return; fortunes lost will not come back; a word uttered cannot be recalled; the released arrow does not revert to the bow; the escaped soul does not re-enter a dead body.

No Indian can look back at that 1962 defeat with anything except embarrassment

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so.... But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

Penulis sama dengan orang-orang lain, kecuali untuk satu perbedaan kecil yang penting. Orang lain berpikir dan merasa setiap hari, tetapi mereka tidak melakukan apa-apa dengan itu. Sebaliknya, penulis bereaksi.

Remember, the moon is reflected in one drop of water as it is the entire ocean-so it is with God. He is reflected in each living thing-in a grain of sand as the entire shore, one star as the whole universe. Each animal as in all creatures.

I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.

Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirrored on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, oh, delighting me!

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.