Quotes About Reflection

To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

Background for Humans

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.