Quotes About Reflection

Up until this point, we have been observing the impermanent, unsatisfactory, or selfless nature of each object as it arose to consciousness.

Only when we discover that the pain of being the way we are is greater than the pain of trying to change will we put forth the effort necessary to make significant progress on our inward journey.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

If you don't work on yourself, then much of your politics is merely projections. We have to walk our talk and do the inner work that allows the outer work to be authentic and also effective.

As Rabbi Heschel teaches, humanity will be saved not by more information, but by more appreciation.

Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.

When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

All the benefit of our religious services is lost if we do not improve them, and conduct ourselves aright afterwards.

None talk more absurdly than murmurers.

Gracious souls wish to retire from the hurry and bustle of this world, that they may sweetly enjoy God and themselves; and, if there be any true peace on this side heaven, it is they that enjoy it in those retirements. This makes death desirable to a child of God, that it is a final escape from all the storms and tempests of this world to perfect and everlasting rest.

Those that are not awakened by the judgments of God upon others, but persist in their defiance of heaven, are ripening apace for the like judgments upon themselves

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When we are to attend upon God in solemn ordinances it concerns us to sanctify ourselves, and to get ready beforehand.

We must retain the remembrance of God's works, that we may remain under the influence of God's law.

In a day of prosperity we are in great danger of forgetting God, our dependence upon him, our need of him, and our obligations to him. When

Guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a bad sense

Converted sinners ought frequently to reflect upon the sinfulness and misery of the state they were in by nature.

We are apt to show our trouble too much to ourselves, aggravating it, and poring upon it, which does us no service, whereas by showing it to God we might cast the care upon him who careth for us, and thereby ease ourselves. Nor should we allow of any complaint to ourselves or others which we cannot with due decency and sincerity of devotion make to God, and stand to before him.

When death comes into a family it ought to be improved.