Quotes About Reflection

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

Así se prueba a un hombre. Si es honesto, intelectualmente hablando, reexamina sus opiniones y comienza de nuevo.

You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?

Do not hate them. They do not know they are evil. They are blind. If you hate them, if you kill them in your heart, they will not die. They will rise up again and again within you, and they will kill your heart.

As a simple fact. Many people think they can postpone repentance till the end. This is an illusion. Most men die as they have lived. If death is sudden, there is no time for it. If it comes gradually, there is usually little energy for the revision of an entire way of being.

Michael D. O'Brien

Our vocation is a call to listening. To adoration of the One who dwells among us.

My mind is reeling.

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others. Terribly objective sometimes. But the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.'

Then came a final wave of his hand, his red wind-breaker like a splash of paint on the kingfisher blue and the dome of cerulean above it, almost a quaint folk painting, the forms containing all that was essential, man suspended above the abyss, the water and sky elegant, the points of color making the whole greater than the sum of its parts, as a work of art should do. As

Good-bye, O fairest world, good-bye", I soliloquized. "O blue gem in the heavens, where mankind dwells in love, and no man's hand is lifted against another, and the gifted realize their every dream, and all things sing, and the light grows gold when the bells ring." "Good poetry needn't rhyme", said Xue. "Besides, you shouldn't tell lies." "Lies? No, I was just dreaming.

switched it off. He fell asleep holding Pin's kingfisher in his hand.

Father Sergius nodded. "Yes, but not as a pious form of life that one puts on like an overcoat. Rather, he lives this mystery without thinking about it. It is not something he does; it is something he is.

Eventually he saw that he had been running to Christ, and the flight from the past had been one of the means used by God to propel him forward.

None of us hears properly", he went on. "Every one of us is tied up in our inner noise.

There's a dialogue between the self and the soul", he said. "They aren't enemies. More like two lenses trying to get in focus.

I don't mean to be critical, but you have been away from civilization for quite a long time. One's perspectives can narrow.

That is where you are wrong, Mr. Zhang. Did you not know that our loss of celestial language is the result of our loss of celestial silence?

Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.

Cher Paul, the artist must always ask himself, am I painting the surface only, or am I revealing the eternal soul of my subjects? Without this, we only add to the agony. We too would be merely using the prostitutes—and worse, for we do not pay them.

Kakva bi utjeha bila imati vlastite organske prijatelje i brinuti se za njih u ovomu usamljenom svemiru. Poput ljudi, oni su kombinacija trnja i zvijezda.

Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything

Answers are temporary things, Anne", he had said. "There will always be more questions." "And shall we dispense with our minds?" she had countered. "No", he said carefully. "Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.

David dropped his eyes. In a low voice, he said, "One can be alone, even in a household full of people who speak incessantly.