Quotes about Reflection

Contemplation, sadly, helps you see your woundedness! That's why most people do not stay long with contemplative prayer, because it's not very glorious. It's a continual humiliation, realizing, "Oh my God, I did it again. I still don't know how to love!

If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.

It is the things that you cannot do anything about and the things that you cannot do anything with that do something with you.

No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it in the first place.

We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.

Humans are creators of meaning, and finding deep meaning in our experiences is not just another name for spirituality but is also the very shape of human happiness.

Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.

The opposite of contemplation is not action, it is reaction.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

Loving God, allow me to be a sheep at least once in a while, and never let me forget that most of my life I have been a goat."       Tuesday