“Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.” WaySelfLife IsAttentionAwarenessFieldsBuddhismIllusionReflectionInvisiblePerceive Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.” PeopleWorldSelfLife IsSufferingReflectionSelf ReflectionMasturbation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.” LongSeemsLife IsNextChildhoodPeriodsReflectionImpressionMaturityAdolescence Author:Cesare Pavese
“Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root.” ThinkingPastLife IsWealthReflectionRootsGreat ThingsAbundanceOur PastContradictoryYour Past Author:Rhonda Byrne
“Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's fullness than subsequent reflection on their significance. Both Stirner and Nietzsche have elaborated Faust's opening speech in which he bemoans his wasted years in academia: this speech is Goethe's own impeachment of Kant and Hegel . Philosophy proceeds always under the risk of making a fetish of thinking.” ThinkingMenFeelsYearsPhilosophyLife IsRiskSpeechReflectionSensesOpeningSignificanceIndispensableFullnessAcademiaFetishHegelImpeachmentFaust Author:John Carroll
“Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.” ThinkingFeelingsScienceLife IsBuddhismBenefitsHighestReflectionIntelligentCooperativesIntelligent Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.” DreamActionLife IsMeditationNew YorkLaughterReflectionAcousticsExuberance Author:Anais Nin
“The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality.” MenWritingYearsLife IsEvilSeeingHolyPureCreaturesReflectionVicesPursueClueFountainArbitraryContradictoryPublic LifeImmoralityApproving Author:Gouverneur Morris