[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.

As we habitually engage our inner wisdom–in thought, word and deed– the latent possibilities of living our highest wholeness awakens.

It’s a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they write it down for 10 minutes they become much more available for whatever...

The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.

The bride waits here,” she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. “This is the moment you think about what you’re doing. Who you’re choosing. Who...

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

Oh, listen. Listen!’ A sound like a big crowd a good way off, excited and shouting, getting closer. We stand up and scan the empty sky. Suddenly there they are (the geese), a wavering V...

The wind god Favonius had warned him in Croatia: If you let your anger rule you … your fate will be even sadder than mine. But how could his fate be anything but sad? Even...

You can’t take people’s opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.

The purpose of life is to find your way back to a spiritual way of thinking and living—to be able to get past the physical stuff. That’s pretty much the whole test. And every soul...

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer...

Ruin still used Reen’s voice—it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing…it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else,...

We like to see our future through our children; they are the reflection of the best of ourselves.

I had an uneventful few days,” it told her. “The most exciting thing was an hour-long lecture from the headmaster on taking our studies seriously. He said next year’s exam will arrive sooner than we...

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Cyrano: The leaves—Roxane: What color—Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.Cyrano: Yes—they know how to die. A little wayFrom the branch to the earth, a little fearOf mingling with the common dust—and yetThey go down...

We must make time to reflect on life.Someday this life will be gone.

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound...

When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes, covered in mud and filth, and put on the clothes an ambassador would wear....

Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose the poverty of his general ideas; he never permits the conversation...

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughts—he must be on the best terms with all of these; and he...

We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and...

It’s more trouble for the suppliers. Partly, it’s a reflection of the fact that Ford and GM are shrinking to reckon with lower market share. And so there’s less business to go around for the...

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

Every failed attempt isn’t the victim of a lack of knowledge, skill or even prayer.But, a belief failure. As grace would have it; you can interrupt some neurons and alter your beliefs.

I’m looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem “Looking For You

POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

…I’m a modern mountebank – I believe in Physiognomy – after all, we are in control of our face – it’s the map of where we’ve been…

Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all...

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

My head phones always allow me to listen to myself

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?

A day is not always bright, and Nights are not always dark. All that matters is what’s inside, because day and night are a reflection of you.

There are songs that make you cry, right?””Sure,” I say.”When you’re dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

Is Wisdom derived from the accumulation of one’s experiences, or rather one’s thoughtful reflection upon what he has learned throughout the process?

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

Anger is the mirror image of fear. It begins as fear, and is expressed outwardly as anger.

Attitudes are like mirrors, they reflect towards anyone that’s looking.

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the...

Christ,” he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,”You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven’t you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step...

Pero resulta que ya no quero que me vendan sueños ajenos si no sensillamente que se cumplan los mios!

Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.