Quotes about Reflection

I wake up and meditate for 20 minutes. The first thing I do when I wake up is say, 'Thank you.'

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

There is a minute in the day, a minute for everyone, though most everyone is too distracted to notice its arrival. A minute of gifts coming from the world like birthday presents. A minute given to every day that seems to create a golden bubble available to everyone.

She gazed right through it to the future, another time and place without this jangling cascade of arbitrary noise.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Sometimes to get your life back, you have to face the death of what you thought your life would look like.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.