Best reflection & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.”

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“We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Way Self Life Is Attention Awareness Fields Buddhism Illusion Reflection Invisible Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”

Looks Self Thousand Reflection Crosses Morbid Condemning

Author:A. B. Simpson

“Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.”

Self Reflection Ugliness

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?”

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Author:Christiane Northrup

“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.”

People World Self Life Is Suffering Reflection Self Reflection Masturbation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.”

Kind Stills Self Reflection Seeds Defense Emptiness Righteousness Healer Identifying Self Righteousness

Author:Gangaji

“A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.”

Mind Self Reality Gone Taken Teacher Reflection Enlightened Void Traps Self Reflection Luminous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection.”

Self Universe Reflection Dimensions Nothingness Self Reflection Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.”

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Author:Amy Dickinson

“Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.”

Soul Self Speak Voice Heard Reflection Depth True Self

Book:Mirrored Voices: Best New Poets

Source: Mirrored Voices: Best New Poets

“Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.”

“In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.”

Ifs Persons Made Self Done Seems Used Suffering Dies Social United Reflection Relation Stuck Used To Be Torture Superstitions Pins Witchcraft Counterparts

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves.”

Way Self Process Cases Successful Reflection Patient Behave Interpretation Self Reflection Completion Continuation

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.”

Self Grows Impossible Journey Acceptance Self Love Reflection Self Acceptance Examination Self Reflection Self-examination

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.”

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Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.”

Source: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

“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 same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.”

Self Problem Spirit Principles Planets Reflection Track Be Good Suspects Suspicion Hunters Self Reflection Detectives Organizational

Author:Terence McKenna

“A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.”

“In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it.”

Real Self Walks Path Reflection Mirrors Originals Perceive Halls Amused Real You

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.”

Self Poetry Purpose Literature Language Challenges Roles Environment Reflection Machines Definitions Artistic Programming Introducing Self Reflection Programming Languages Multiplicity Coders

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.”

Thinking Self Sex Reflection Self Reflection

Author:Margaret Cho

“Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.”

Self School Words Of Wisdom Reflection Self Reflection

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.”

Way Feels Firsts May Self Pain Speak Pleasure Self Love Reflection Persuasion Eloquence Without Pain

Author:Blaise Pascal

“This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.”

World Self States Nations Community United United States Cutting Capable Reflection Edges Willingness Self Reflection Corrections Cutting Edge Intelligence Community

Author:Barack Obama

“The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.”

World Self Reflection Inner Self Outer Worlds

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.”

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Author:Tyga

“When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.”

Thinking Way Giving Book Real Self Brain Products Civilization Reflection Capacity Agency Civilized Self Reflection Civilized Society

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.”

“Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.”

Self Eye Spirit Greater Source Reflection Evolve Cosmos Allowing Self Reflection

Author:Alex Grey

“Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.”

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Author:Donald Kuspit

“Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.”

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Author:Jim Wallis

“The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?”

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Author:Philip Yancey

“History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.”

Self Language Reflection Mediums Recognition Self Reflection Self Recognition

Author:Terence McKenna

“Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.”

Mean Self Levels Information Higher Reflection Self Reflection Higher Level Coordination

Author:Terence McKenna

“And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.”

Believe Self Moving Culture I Believe Keys Reflection Aspect Recognizing Integrating

Author:Terence McKenna

“It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.”

Self Matter Use Hands Light Seems Spirit Levels Information Higher Reflection Organize Self Reflection Higher Level

Author:Terence McKenna

“Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.”

Writing Self Secret Reflection Endless Analysis Corrections

Author:Johann Sebastian Bach

“Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.”

World Self Pleasure Minutes Reflection Infinite Bliss

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.”

“Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."”

Thinking Self Musician Reflection Self Reflection

Author:Dan Bejar

“Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.”

Self Energy Doubt Reflection Destructive Self Reflection Lunatic

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

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