Quotes About Reflection

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Never answer a hypothetical question.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Motto of the Benedictines

Man creates the link between Nature and Archetype.

Guardandomi intorno come qualcuno che d'un tratto si è infilato un paio di occhiali puliti, vedevo che quasi tutti portavano addosso i brutali segni dell'amore, un amore perduto, strappato via, o semplicemente sepolto in una tomba." Dopo di te - vol 2

Lately, she'd had the overwhelming sensation that there were no single, seminal moves that completely altered the course of one's destiny. Instead, life just seemed to be a series of small mistakes, which you continued to make over and over again.

there was something about a Friday night in the city with no plans that made you feel like … well, like a bit of a loser.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

understanding the nature of things just as they are. Why? Because: So you should view all of the fleeting worlds: A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

There is no happiness for the soul in the external worlds since these are perishable, true happiness lies in that which is eternal, within us.

Suffering in search of truth gives true meaning to the truth.

Recreation becomes a means to re-create one's consciousness at every moment instead of a means to forget oneself and to pass the time.

When the human being is in harmony with life, then it is possible to reflect and meditate upon the human condition and realize the limitations of worldly pursuits. When there is peace and harmony in life, a human being can practice any of the varied disciplines designated as Shetaut Neter to promote {his/her} evolution towards the ultimate goal of life, which Spiritual Enlightenment.

Love becomes meaningless when you find its meaning.

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

The Quran, in pointing to God's existence, is a universe that speaks, the same way that this universe is a silent Quran.