Quotes About Reflection

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Iris giggles again, and there is no difference, Xavier thinks, between the young woman who met Tony in 1950 and the one calling now; the high-spirited 1950 version is still serving people in the grocery shop, even though the shop no longer stands where it did; somehow, each individual moment goes on existing, somewhere.

perfectly in his mind that it felt like a memory. "Who killed her?" he asked quietly. Odilia stared straight ahead, saying nothing. The hymn ended and Whillans raised his hands. "Let us pray.

What's wonderful about you is your first thought is of my eternal soul,

If you live in the knowledge that this world is a gateway to the next, it can be a comfort.

From "Rock Star" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. What happens to a rock star When he gets too old to perform When his public has faded Like the strength his voice once had? What happens to a rock star When he's treated like yesterday's news And the only reviews that he gets are ones that are bad?

When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness.

There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You

come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.

Pure awareness transcends thinking.

What's become of my life? Why do I feel so burned out? I should be happy. I used to be happy. Where did it all go?

are you driven by the daily routines that force you to live in your head rather than in your life?

Meditation is a simple practice that gains its power from repetition. It's only through this that we can become aware of the repeating patterns in our own minds.

What can an ex-President of the United States do except get drunk?" (There are other versions of the line that are quite similar.)

Weeds grew, and I ignored my chores, while the cat worried her tail of its most plumescent fur. I saw my body, white as tallow, my face framed by colorless hair, noted my appetites, then put them aside, walked and walked to wear it all away.

We are mysteries unto ourselves. Our lives come to us in random moments...Listen to the stories you tell others. The stories you repeat. The stories you want told at the end of your life. What does the story want from the listeners? What is it you need others to understand?

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing.

Why did god create a dual universe? So he might say 'Be not like me. I am alone.' And it might be heard.

I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum'thing has always been and always will be you. I miss you.

And yet it was hard for him to recall the last time he had enjoyed a long string of days of simple, mindless physical well-being.

Maailman kuvaa katselet, et maailmaa.

Ajattele ajatuksesi loppuun, ja tapahdu maailman tahdissa, niin sinussa on rauha.

the task of philosophy is to start over from the beginning time and time again.