Quotes about Reflection

Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

It's been a crazy whirlwind, but I'm so blown away by God's hand on my life.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.