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• We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Self, Awakening

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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• The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Moon, Self, Lakes

  Fred Alan Wolf (1999). “The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self”, p.26, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• 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.

  Donald Kuspit

  Self, Steps, Streams

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• I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.

  T.I.

  Self, Giving, Aim

  Song: Be Easy

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• The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.

  Eve Branson

  Flaws, Reflection Of Yourself

  Source: www.thegentlemansjournal.com

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• The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

  Gene Sharp

  Determination, Government, Effort

  Gene Sharp (2011). “From Dictatorship to Democracy”, p.26, Profile Books

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

  Stephen Covey

  Purpose, Way

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.226, Mango Media Inc.

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• I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Perfect, People

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• Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.

  Terry Brooks

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Knights, Europe

  'The Spectator' no. 383, 20 May 1712

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• Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

  Robert Schumann

  Artist, Years, Understanding

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

  Thomas Dreier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

  William B. Ogden

  Happiness, Self, Solitude

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• In vain sedate reflections we would make
  When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

  Alexander Pope

  Knowledge, Half, Vain

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.181

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• The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

  Havelock Ellis

  Dance, Dancing, Joy

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• Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Vision, Awe, Self Awareness

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• The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Wisdom, Yoga, Water

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• One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the Spirit, which is the reflection of God Almighty in our heart. That is self identity and also self knowledge. Also, one becomes one with the all-pervading Divine power of love. Our awareness is enlightened by the Spirit and Divine vibrations start flowing through our central nervous system enlightening our being.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Psychics, World

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• The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process identified by evolutionists as the chief motor of biological change. The theory of punctuated equilibrium was, in its initial formulation, little more than this insight adumbrated.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Population, Records, Littles

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• The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

  Russell Simmons

  Hard Work, Community, Everyday

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• The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Spring, Air

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.200, Vintage

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• What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Humility, Order, Arbitrary

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• Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. One in that case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.

  John Dewey

  Knowledge, Science, Understanding

  "Democracy And Education".

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