Quotes About Reflection

When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife ?

Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death.

I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.

My thoughts are really all I think about.

One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.

I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.

Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.

Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.

I would like to make you more aware of yourself as a human, and thus, ultimately a better person.

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

writing stories, scenes, and portraits is a very inductive process and will lead you to new insights and new points of view you couldn't reach by reasoning alone.

If you separate the writing process into two stages, you can exploit these opposing muscles one at a time: first be loose and accepting as you do fast early writing; then be critically toughminded as you revise what you have produced. What you'll discover is that these two skills used alternately don't undermine each other at all, they enhance each other.

When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey.

When the dust clears and in the quiet of your own heart, what kind of God do you believe in, really? And why?

When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey. That journey was recorded over a thousand-year span of time, by different writers, with different personalities, at different times, under different circumstances, and for different reasons. In

I feel it is part of the mystery of faith that things normally do not line up entirely, and so when they don't, it is not a signal to me that the journey is at an end but that I am still on it. As I reflect on my own experience and that of many others far wiser than I, God seems willing to help that process along.

The Bible isn't a book that reflects one point of view. It is a collection of books that records a conversation—even a debate—over time.

a faith that remains open to the ever-moving Spirit and new possibilities, rather than chaining the Spirit to our past •?a faith that welcomes opportunities to think critically and reflectively on how we think about God, the world, and our place in it, rather than resting at all costs on maintaining familiar certainties

Doubt is what being cornered by our thinking looks like. Doubt happens when needing to be certain has run its course.