“When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as the physical body, although it can become thousands of things.” BodyBuddhismShapesReflectionSubtleAurasPhysical Body Author:Frederick Lenz
“I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.” WorldMindHelpingMy OwnWonderShapesReflectionExtraordinaryMeatSheepJointsButchers Author:Charles Dickens
“In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.” MenWorldMindPhilosophyAgeActionYouthShapesReflectionAspectAffairDeterminePracticalsImpressionResolution Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
“The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.” RealBeliefCenturyPrayingShapesWorshipReflectionStonesSaintGravesIslamicAttributesIdolsSufiDeitiesQuranPraying To God18th CenturyDelhiVedasIdol Worship Author:Asghar Ali Engineer
“To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman” WayMeanPlayUsePastSocialProcessOne ThingShapesIntellectualReflectionCapacityTestsScientistGuidesCaptureOur PastYour PastCraftsman Book:The Sociological Imagination Source: The Sociological Imagination
“Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.” BodyWorryViolenceShapesReflectionSizeYour BodyCriticizeActs Of ViolenceBody Shapes Author:Emma Thompson
“Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.” WayNeedsBelieveRealHappensEyeEnjoyCan DoEnemyExampleFriendsShapesReflectionEchoesReal Friends Author:Eric Hoffer