Quotes about Reflection

You cannot love anything or anyone more than you love yourself and you can't love yourself unless you see yourself whole. If you secretly disapprove of any part of yourself, you will secretly hate part of the One who made you. Can you understand that?

He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.

But know that how you see yourself doesn't define you. How I see you defines you. How you see yourself only defines your experience in the world.

You will only see who you are and thus be who you are as you surrender your attachment to all other identities

We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say: Wow, I never thought of it like that before!

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The only way to know yourself in and as the light is to let go of all your attachments to who you think you are in this world. You know the sayings: hate your entire life, deny yourself, take up the cross. All these mean the same thing. Let go of the meaning you give life in all your judgments of value based on the knowledge of good and evil. You've heard this?" "Jesus said those things," I said, knowing the verses well.

See with lamps on, Christy. Eyes wide open. See yourself as beautiful. The

Mine was less a crisis of doctrine than a crisis of experience.

What matters isn't our stated belief and doctrine but how we live and what we experience in the story of our lives, as Jesus, John, James, and Paul all make so abundantly clear. It's our actual experience and expression of life that shows us and the world what we truly believe and to what extent we truly love, not what we say we believe or who we say we love. If we say we have faith, but the workings of our life don't reflect that faith, that faith is either asleep or dead.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.