#reflection

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

I am not only now but always a man who obeys nothing in me except the reason that seems best to me upon reflection.

Calmness is the ideal state in which truth reflects clearly.

Let your mind be like a quiet lake reflecting the beauty of the stars.

The soul's beauty is the reflection of the eternal.

By constant reflection on the great declaration 'Tat Tvam Asi' (That Thou Art), the illusion of separation dissolves forever.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

He who is not in the habit of saying 'What shall I think of this? What shall I think of this?'—I can indeed do nothing with him!

When the water is still, it reflects the sky and trees with flawless clarity. When the mind is still, it reflects the universe.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to have lived twice.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Life is a mirror: it reflects its own face to the watcher.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.