Quotes About Reflection

I am lonesome for all the conversations we never had.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. RUMI IN

Rilke recommended that when life became turbulent and troublesome, it was wise to stay close to one simple thing in nature.

Silence is the voice of the mystery. Silence let us dream again.

It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

Most of us are moving through such an undergrowth of excess that we cannot sense the shape of ourselves any more.

We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos.

THE INNER HISTORY OF A DAY No one knew the name of this day; Born quietly from deepest night, It hid its face in light, Demanded nothing for itself, Opened out to offer each of us A field of brightness that traveled ahead, Providing in time, ground to hold our footsteps And the light of thought to show the way. The mind of the day draws no attention; It dwells within the silence with elegance

Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.

The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.

do not damage yourselves By attending only at the hungry altar Of regret and anger and guilt.

We also notice, at the other end, how the shadows of old age are lit more and more from the invisible world.

We all have experiences, but as T. S. Eliot said, we had the experience but missed the meaning. Every human heart seeks meaning; for it is in meaning that our deepest shelter lies.

It was Kierkegaard who said that life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward.

Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.

How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of the earth meets the passion of the human eye, invisible depths strain towards the mirror of the name. In the word, the earth breaks silence.

If you sin against your soul, it is always at great cost. Work can be an attractive way of sinning deeply against the wildness and creativity of your own soul.

At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter?

May you come to recognize That though your body is imprisoned, No one can imprison your mind. May all the time you have on your hands Bring you into new friendship with your mind

The more we recognize our found blessings, the more they increase around us.

The deepest things that you need are not elsewhere. They are here and now in that circle of your own soul. Real friendship and holiness enable a person to frequently visit the hearth of his solitude;

The most subversive invitation you could ever accept is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed.

We live in a world that responds to our longing; it is a place where the echoes always return, even if sometimes slowly.

IT IS STRANGE TO BE HERE. THE MYSTERY NEVER LEAVES YOU alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.