Quotes about Reflection

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

Even as I hold you I think of you as someone gone far, far away. Your eyes the color of pennies in a bowl of dark honey bringing sweet light to someone else your black hair slipping through my fingers is the flash of your head going around a corner your smile, breaking before me, the flippant last turn of a revolving door, emptying you out, changed, away from me. Even as I hold you I am letting go.

Dear God. Dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear peoples. Dear Everything. Dear God.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Then she added thoughtfully, "And that old woman that turned me off so short got down so bad in the end that she was walking on two sticks." And I knew she was thinking, though she never said it: Here I am today, my eight children healthy and grown and three of them in college and me with hardly a sick day for years. Ain't Jesus wonderful?

He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represented stories

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extereme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I smoke when I want to talk to God. I smoke when I want to make love. Lately I feel like me and God make love just fine anyhow.