Quotes about Reflection

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

A Greek philosopher said, 'All men think it is only the other man who is mortal'. The way we scurry about accumulating things is testimony to our unspoken doctrine that we are exceptions to the law of death. The events of September 11, 2001, were a shocking reminder to millions of Americans of something we should have already understood - our mortality.

Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?