Quotes about Reflection

T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung, Stages of Life

Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities.

What we mentally refuse to permit others, we refuse ourselves. What we bless in others, we draw to us.

Today I atone for the mistakes of my past.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

You've learned something about yourself from all of this: you do not function well outside the circle of God's love.

Yet being with that dissonance is important; it is our soul work. The purpose of our lives is to close the gap between what could be and what too often is.

Today I accept myself as I am.

we need to atone for our mistakes as a nation and return to the democratic principles and universal human values from which we have strayed.

altar to God is the human mind. To "desecrate the altar" is to fill it with non-loving thoughts.

The holiness of the present delivers me from the pain of yesterday.

Spiritual law is unalterable: if we focus on the guilt in others, we'll see guilt in ourselves; if we focus on the innocence in others, we'll feel the innocence within ourselves. Perception is a choice.