Quotes About Reflection

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

If you love your government, you are not paying attention.

People who don't have a life have television.

I used to drink a lot of beer and brandy when I was in my twenties. Today, I read books and my hangovers are worth talking about.

Satirists are merely impatient obituary writers.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy, and one's perspective. It was best to accept old age, death, injustice, hardship – all of these were part of living

I was amazed at how many fools I ran into until I noticed the common denominator in all those interactions: me." Why

Woodman, M. (1982) Addition to Perfection. Toronto: Inner City Books.

The true men of old were not afraid When they stood alone in their views. They had no mind to fight Tao. They did not try, by their own contriving, To help Tao along. These are the ones we call true men. Minds free, thoughts gone All that came out of them Came quiet, like the four seasons. 24

Furthermore, he admonishes us: "If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself."111

The true self] rests in direct intuition. Therefore I said: "Better to abandon disputation and seek the true light."60

As Chuang Tzu put it: "In the deep dark the person alone sees light."87

Without beginning, without end, Without past, without future. A halo of light surrounds the world of law. We forget one another, quiet and pure, altogether powerful and empty. The emptiness is irradiated by the light of the heart and of heaven. The water of the sea is smooth and mirrors The moon in its surface. The clouds disappear in blue space; the mountains shine clear. Consciousness reverts to contemplation; The moon-disk rests alone.31

It offers neither facts nor power, but for lovers of self-knowledge, of wisdom—if there be such—it seems to be the right book.... Let it go forth into the world for the benefit of those who can discern its meaning.

Detach from intellectual knowledge ... and return to clarity and calm,

Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

The crisis of liberalism (and of American political reflection) is due to liberalism's success in becoming the official language for all public statement.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

had come all this way and this was what I get paid to do. So I went out and found his home and for four hours it all poured out, what had happened in those three days at Chipyongni when he was a young platoon leader. It was if he had been waiting for me to come by for fifty-five years, and he remembered everything as

What had happened in the Chinese civil war as much as anything else reflected those changes, something MacArthur never chose to understand. Part of that was his very nature, and what had become the nature of his mystique. He did not ask questions; that would imply there was something he did not know. Instead he was oracular, the man that others came to hear. Major