Quotes About Reflection

We must withdraw, then, from all things, for when God works, he works without an image.

When earth discovered that its nature was unlike that of heaven and far from it, it fled from heaven to the lowest place it could find and remained there in stillness.

There is no better advice on how to find God than to seek him where we left him: do now, when you cannot find God, what you did when last you had him, and then you will find him again.

St. Augustine said, "What good is it to me that this birth takes place ceaselessly if does not take place in me? If it is to be done, it is to be done within me.

Dac? singura rug?ciune pe care ai spune-o ar fi Mul?umesc, ar fi de ajuns.

They for whom God is not enough are greedy. The reward for all your works should be that they are known to God and that you seek God in them. Let this always be enough for you.

Que proveito tenho eu se o nascimento eterno do filho divino ocorre sem cessar, mas não ocorre dentro de mim? Que proveito obtenho eu do fato de Deus dar à luz o seu filho, se eu não o trago à luz em minha época, e em minha cultura?

The past is history, the future's a mystery. If you've got a foot in each, you're pissing on today.

Always living for a better tomorrow or running from a numbing past, we inhabit this present moment like a shabby motel on the way to somewhere else. In doing this, we cheapen and degrade our only possession, which is simply this moment and right here and now. If pressed, we really couldn't say where it is that we're in such a rush to get to.

My prayer life IS my life.

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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

We mock the things we are to be.

It was no place, Ryan thought, to come home to. ???

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Le cose che non sono state durano sempre. Non voltarti indietro

desi ii placea trecutul, intunericul pe care-l ascunde inauntrul sau, linistea pe care ti-o da prin faptul ca nu te invata nimic, faptul ca-l pierzi, deplinatatea lui satula, care nu mai cere nimic, viitorul ii placuse intotdeauna mai mult. In el vedea un om in papauci, care merge pe apa fara sa lase nicio urma. [...]

In ciò che non ha voluto essere lo riconosco.

For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.

And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present becomes the past I seem to have no problem attending to it obsessively. : )

Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

We might miss the days of being unreachable.

As I snapped pictures, Nina gave me a dirty look. I just laughed, acting as though I didn't care. But inside I felt sort of differently. She used to be my good friend. It made me feel funny. Sad. Now she gave me dirty looks and did mean things to my house. To tell you the truth, it hurt. Later