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“The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied”

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Author:Confucius

“Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.”

Source: The Natural History of Religion

“There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.”

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Author:Wallis Simpson

“These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.”

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Author:John Locke

“For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life.”

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Book:The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

Source: The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

“This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.”

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Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

“Beautiful and familiar objects can help us to feel better. Photos of family and friends, which remind us of the people we love and who love us, are important mood-lifters. Items that inspire us or encourage periods of reflection do the same.”

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Book:Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

“Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.”

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Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths