Quotes About Reflection

You cant start the next chapter of your life, if you keep re-reading the last one

At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation.

Searching outside oneself for what can only be found within can lead to a life lived in the wrong direction and sacrifices made for the wrong reasons. People can wind up alienated from themselves even if they achieve lofty goals set by others.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

Unless a person learns of the sacred intentions in their own life it will be difficult for them to understand the sacred presence in all of life.

If we want the world to change, it has to start inside the human soul.

Soul is found where life deepens us, where meaning calls to us, where trouble deters us, wherever and however we slow down in the midst of the rushing and racing at the surface level of life.

Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.

The point has never been to 'believe' in myths or to simply accept what others have said they mean. The key issue with mythic images is to let them speak to us, wherever and whenever we find ourselves seeking guidance, permission, or understanding.

Much of the fear of death comes from an intuition that we will be revealed as having avoided encounters with the deep self within us.

Growing old can mean more than slowing down; it can be a time of truly growing down and incarnating further. Because the inner genius that tries to incarnate through us will keep calling for us to awaken further until we come to the end of our life adventure.

Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF." ? Mandy Hale Quote

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions

It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.

My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.

If there was an exit interview on the hour of our death I would like to be asked the question, "Was it worth it?" To which my response would be, "Yes, emphatically yes...but just barely.

I'm sorry about today." "Do you want to talk about it?" "I was bored and lonely." "Some would call that the human condition.

I'd been everything but ordinary and I wanted to know what that felt like before they dump me into the grave.

patio. From where I stood, he looked like a figure projected on a screen, luminous, distant and larger than life. He seemed to me at that moment the sum of every missed opportunity in my life. I let the feeling pass.

while people and circumstances certainly matter, what's even more important is what we think about those people and circumstances.

What is commonly called a dark night of the soul is really a dark night of the ego. Knowing this helps you to tap into the space within where healing is possible and miracles happen.

When clients tell me how much they suffered from the actions of family members, my first question to their conscious mind is, "If you had not been exposed to this person as a child, what would you now lack in understanding?" It may take a while, but the answer is in our minds. There are spiritual reasons for our being raised as children around certain kinds of people, just as other people are designated to be near us as adults.