Quotes About Reflection

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.