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“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

“The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.”

Source: Killosophy

“I am the reflection of my source which is magnificent in all ways.”

Way Soul Source Reflection Magnificent

Book:The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.”

Way Trying Wells May Art Natural Talent Students Becoming Reflection Labor Tasks Roots Fruit Perseverance Vain Excellent Appropriate Instruction Pupils Adapted Natural Talent

Book:Selected Works

Source: Selected Works

“Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.”

Men Way Looks May Use Language Written Stage Conversation Reflection Regard Profanity Family Man Written Language

Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

“This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.”

Way Love Today Action Desire Love You Particular Theory Reflection Universal Remains Shoes Locals Bother Theme Plot Delicate Uncles Nephew Boisterous

Author:Glen Duncan

“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

“There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.”

“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.”

“The way I make music is just a reflection of how I think music should be made. Where you sit in a studio, and you make music, and you use technology to your advantage, not to hide all the blaring mistakes.”

Thinking Way Should Made Use Mistake Technology Music Is Reflection Advantage Studios

Author:Corey Taylor

“Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.”

Way Facts Form Opportunity Fun Our Lives Journey Media Unique Reflection Mirrors Mere Currents Details

Author:Mara Brock Akil

“To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.”

Way Doubt Cutting Materials Achievement Reflection Fellows Busy Affair Relief Throat Razors

Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.”

People Thinking Way Feelings Process Acting Subjects Reflection Insight One Way Range Construction Connecting Positively Outlines Dots Prompts Acting Out Connecting The Dots

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.”

Way Use Spirit Speak Language Buddhism Reflection Warrior Use Of Language Warrior Spirit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.”

Source: Sculpture inside and out

“Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.”

Way Philosophy Spiritual Consciousness Teach Exercise Reflection Active New Ways Invitations New Way Of Life

Author:Pierre Hadot

“Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.”

Way Humans Reason Humanity Lost Special Effects Reflection Theater Endure Obscure Special Effects

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I'm just a guy that grew up in a total fun-loving environment. I try to create that everywhere I go. Basically what I'm doing is a reflection of me as an individual, me naturally. I'm not staging or putting on anything. I think my approach to the game is an all-out approach, whatever it takes to win. I've always been that way.”

Thinking Way Trying Guy Games Winning Individual Fun Environment Grew Approach Grew Up Reflection Whatever It Takes Staging Fun Loving

Author:Dave Parker

“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process”

“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

“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

“We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.”

Way Purpose Reflection

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”

“I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.”

Way Feels Feelings Song Language Simple Creativity Reflection Senses Liberation Shy Prisoner Publishing Egocentric

Author:Ana Tijoux

“I'm more influenced by people's attitudes and spirits than by their particular style. Whether it's Elsie de Wolfe or Pauline de Rothschild, I always admire women who had a vision and stuck to it. Because ultimately, the way you live has to be a reflection of you.”

People Way Spirit Attitude Vision Style Particular Reflection Stuck Admire Decor Rothschild

Author:Charlotte Moss

“We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.”

People Way Action Energy Example Reflection Patterns Internals Our Actions

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“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

“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.”

Way Years Mind Book Self Together Seeing Reflection Library Shelves

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Freedom is the freedom you choose, when you're not getting in your own way. The best way to start every day is to wake up and wash your face and look yourself in the mirror, right in the eyes of your reflection, and say, "don't get in my way." Because it's only when we get in our own way that we have to step back or step aside or step over here and not walk at all.”

Way Looks Eye Faces Walks Steps Reflection Wake Up Mirrors Best Way My Way Your Face You Choose

Author:Gary Busey

“I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.”

Way Writing Enjoy Reflection

Author:Bill Watterson

“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.”

Way Eye Reflection Mirrors Invention Worthless

Author:Voltaire

“I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each of us as an individual creates a life - we draw to us certain people and events and circumstances that reflect what's going on inside of us, so we can literally look at our life and see a mirror of our own consciousness. And if that's true on an individual level, it's also true that what's going on in the world in a bigger way is a reflection of the collective consciousness.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Looks Certain Individual Levels Consciousness Our Lives Events Circumstances Draws Reflection Bigger Mirrors Collectives Collective Consciousness

Author:Shakti Gawain

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.”

Way Wells Philosophy Facts Our Lives Life Philosophy Late Perception Reflection Caught Too Late Exceed

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

“Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.”

Thinking Way Important Enough Today Artist Healing Musician Reflection Pops Classical Music Pop Music Classical Musicians

Author:George Duke

“Many of the women who I've taught to climb have a better sense of balance than the men. I think it has to do with being a little more sensitive to it rather than relying on strenght. It's also a reflection of a passive attitude - balancing your way up the rock, rather than attacking it.”

Thinking Men Way Littles Attitude Rocks Taught He Man Balance Reflection Sensitive Climbs Passive Attacking Strenght

Author:Lynn Hill

“We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.”

“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.”

Ifs Way Self Helping Moving Powerful Cutting Dangerous Kings Higher Reflection Criticism Accountability Repentance Righteousness Usual Luther Dangerous Things Self Criticism

Author:Jim Wallis

“God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself”

Way Jesus Fronts Humility Products Proud Reflection Spending Get Up Good Work Spending Time Reflection Of Yourself

Author:Bradley Cooper

“An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer.”

Way Moments Artist Song Dies Culture Can Do Behinds Computer Reflection Impact Guitar Timeless

Author:Skrillex

“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?”

Way Believe Self Might Christian Opportunity Grace Messages Reflection Filled Criticize Self Reflection Presenting Admiring American Society

Author:Philip Yancey

“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.”

Way Art Process Activity Reflection Art Is Connections Essence Notes Musical Patterns Surface Concentration Contrast Mundane Commentary Affinity Musical Notes

Author:Russell Sherman

“No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.”

Way Littles Problem Practice Meditation Amount Reflection Yoga Difficulty Guides Diets Going Away

Author:Jack Kornfield

“The best way to create a purposeful life is to allow the soul's decision to precede the body's action. One does not do something in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, therefore, does certain things in certain ways. The actions of the body were meant to be reflections of a state of being, not attempts to attain a state of being.”

Way Doe Soul States Body Action Life Is Certain Order Decision Reflection Best Way Meant To Be Compassionate Were Meant To Be Purposeful Life

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between geographies, languages, familiarity, and the like. Cinema is art and art, they say, is a reflection of life and society, so the way we tell our stories is the main differentiator for me.”

People World Way Art Stories Together Language Lines Reflection Great Things Cinema Geography Familiarity Binders Reflections Of Life

Author:Priyanka Chopra

“I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.”

World Way Reflection Impact Metaphor

Author:Paul Reed Smith

“I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way the old mystics used to do. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.”

Way Used Meditation Reflection Contemplation

Author:Caroline Myss

“To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and to present the character in a reflection of the times, is an absolutely incredible accomplishment. Hats off to all these people who have done such incredible creative work and still do every week.”

People Way Stills Done Character Stories Creative Week Reader Reflection Exciting Incredibles Accomplishment Hats Coming Back Creative Work Hats Off

Author:Michael Uslan

“It was more just about serving the song, which is sort of the way that we work in general. We wanna do the best that we can with it and make it the most interesting to our ears. And putting auto-tune on 'California English', was just one reflection of that.”

Way Song Interesting Reflection Ears California Just One Tunes Serving Do The Best Most Interesting Auto Tune

Author:Chris Baio

“In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of sources, including literature and philosophy, history and anthropology. These sources can guide our reflections on our own experiences, as we explore and reconsider. Mann contributed to such explorations in a distinctive way, and I hope my book brings that out.”

Way Book Ends Philosophy Literature Source Reflection Philosophical Including Guides Exploration Broads Mixtures Anthropology Distinctive Philosophical Questions

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ideas Belief Natural Views Ought Reflection Responsible Agents Rejects Justified Muster

Author:Hilary Kornblith