Quotes about Reflection

but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.

In his critique of his fathers and uncles, Jung recognized that many humans had become reflections of the punitive God they worshipped. A forgiving God allows us to recognize the good in the supposed bad, and the bad in the supposed perfect or ideal.

he just tells him to "descend" from his power position, "go away and get rid of all your possessions." Money is only the metaphor here; the real possession he has to get rid of is his ego.

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance—not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of the spiritual journey is this: wisdom and love do not come from success but from continuing failure.

You can forgive the outer world only if and when you have first forgiven your own inner world.

If you don't walk into the seond half of your own life, it is you who does not want it.

But it takes us much longer to discover "the task within the task," as I like to call it: what we are really doing when we are doing what we are doing.

The wounds to our ego are our teachers and must be welcomed. They must be paid attention to, not litigated.

To keep the mind space open, you need some form of meditative practice—something much more than saying prayers. In fact, if recitation of prayers does not lead to a change in consciousness, it is actually counterproductive.

Anne Wilson Schaef