Quotes About Reflection

The way of soul, we notice, is downward rather than the upward flight of the mystic.

The ego breaks free of the soul, its matrix, in order to reflect soul, to make its potential actual, and eventually to be reunited with the realized soul to form the totality of the self.

The soul needs feeding - where "feeding" signifies heeding.

Our lives are like a piece of embroidery: on one side, all loose ends, cut threads, and knots; but, turned around at death, a marvelous, coherent picture.

The unconscious reflects back at us the face we show to it.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Suppose for a moment that God began taking from us the many things for which we have failed to give thanks. Which of our limbs and faculties would be left? Would I still have my hands and my mind? And what about loved ones? If God were to take from me all those persons and things for which I have not given thanks, who or what would be left of me?

When we pray the Psalter, then, the words are not spoken in our own voice. We put on, rather, what St. Paul called "the mind of Christ.

We are so used to our own history, we do not see it as remarkable or out of the ordinary, whereas others might see it as horrendous. Further, we tend to minimize that which we feel shameful about.

We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.

You perhaps take up religion bitterly which you laughes at in your youth, well not actually laughed, but it wasn't your kind of truth.

And you perhaps take up religion bitterly which you laughed at in your youth, well not actually laughed but it wasn't your kind of truth.

He will hardly remember that life happened to him.

I saw the danger, yet I passed along the enchanted way, And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.

I'm nostalgic. I miss childhood. I miss first grade. I miss thinking girls are gross. Do you know how much money I could save if I still thought girls were gross?

This will force you to dig deep, exercise your creative half, and find the positive insight in any topic that arises.

First, ask yourself why you feel that way. What is the exact moment and action that caused the feeling? Is it something big, or small and isolated?

According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, most people live lives of quiet desperation.

When you start thinking, "Why did she say that?" and "What made him do that?" instead of immediately reacting, that's the beginning of your path to emotional intelligence.

Knowing yourself is probably the hardest job in the world.

Knowing yourself and possessing self-awareness allows you to make more mindful decisions that are right for you.

First principles thinking is the practice of getting behind this tendency to follow, and to question everything you think is set in stone and realizing that they are probably assumptions.