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“If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.”

Ifs Loses Break Stage Reflection

Author:Peter Megargee Brown

“Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.”

Whole Individual Water Break Sky Moon Reflection Realization Drop Of Water

Author:Dogen

“Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.”

Wells Persons Understanding Water Loses Interesting Break Personality Enlightenment Reflection Areas Buddhist Acquire Commentary Referencing

Author:Brad Warner

“Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?”

Source: Memories

“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.”

Ifs Feels Heart Doe Memories Break Forever Happened Objects Tears Reader Sorrow Reflection Breaths Leaving Dear Corners Pity Spots Wander Subtle Abandoned Parting Trembling Unloved Abode Holding Back

Book:The Gift

Source: The Gift

“I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me.”

Light Bits Break Path Moon Reflection Lacking Break Through Crossroads Light Up

Author:John J. Geddes

“The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.”

Ifs World Helping Break Reflection Mirrors Who We Are

Author:Deepak Chopra