Quotes About Reflection

You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!

You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you!

You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," it will be enough.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me...

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' it will be enough.

If the only prayer you say in your entire life is 'thank you,' that will be enough. ~ Meister Eckhart

Pay heed to this, how you are turned toward your God, when you are in church or in your cell. Maintain this same state of mind and bear it among the crowd and into unrest and dissimilarity.

for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.