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“It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.”

Soul Causes Environment Reflection Environmental Logical

Author:Paolo Soleri

“An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.”

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.”

Men Self Given Causes Natural Simple Sacrifice Possibility Benefits Reflection Everyday Oneself Engaged Everyday Life Self Sacrifice Donne

Author:African Spir

“The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.”

Ifs Way Strong Causes Nature Movement Reflection Rivers Currents One Way Streams Uneasy

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory. The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name.”

Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II

“The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.”

Knows Causes Answers Interesting Brain Reflection Asking Interesting Things

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.”

Culture Social Causes Reflection Pops Social Change Pop Culture Popular Culture

Author:John Podhoretz

“If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Causes Freedom Music Millions Reflection Be You Self Reflection

Author:Cat Stevens

“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.”

People Ifs Way Want Different Soul Problem Government Social Causes Change Majors Reflection Different Ways Social Change Free Society Decadence Social Problems

Author:Cal Thomas

“Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”

Source: My Life in France

“It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.”

World Trying Causes Awareness Reflection Self Awareness Useless Seekers Outer Worlds

Author:Vernon Howard

“Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the existence of one object from another, unless they be connected together, either mediately or immediately... Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ball moving toward it with rapidity. They strike; and the ball which was formerly at rest now acquires a motion. This is as perfect an instance of the relation of cause and effect as any which we know, either by sensation or reflection.”

“This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade”

Made Causes Struggle Objects Reflection Feminist Oppression Liberation Engagement Oppressed Pedagogy Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.”

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror I hate the man in the mirror Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer”

Men Eye Pain Hate Turns Causes He Man Reflection I Hate Mirrors Terror

Author:Tupac Shakur