Bronco Charlie had more dangerous adventures, greater excitements, and many honors in the years that followed. Yet on his one hundredth birthday when he looked back over his life, the thing that made him proudest of all was that single memory -- the day he became a rider for the Pony Express.
Expressions of replica...
Consideration of periphery as existent...
Contemplation of imitation as authentic...
Fear of exposure...
Merely a likeness of you...
for your reflection remains hidden
Trust the manifestation .....
it is your inner self ...
evident at it's core
Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body
are all reflections of how you see and express yourself.
Do these reflect your true self?
It is good to look through different perspectives. However never your exact opposite, this is your reflection in the mirror from who you will never win. As any cat can tell you.
""Imagine the number 1. This 1 could never know itself in its capacity as 1, the indivisible, without its reflection which is the extenstion of itself, the number 2. the 2 contains the 1, without the 1 it could not be. Only now does 1 comprehend itself as 1 by reflecting itself in the 2. By recognizing itself in its reflection, which is 2, the 1 becomes an understanding of itself which is 3. The Absolute, or God, is all-encompassing, Is All-There-Is. What is all-encompassing can have no opposite. It is the ONE. The ONE needs to reflect its SELF in its SELF to know its SELF. Thus it creates an extension of its crystal SELF, the Christ SELF, to gain cognition of itself in its reflection. What reflects must receive the image first which it is to reflect. Thus the son of God is born, the Christ-SELF.""
BE what you wish to see reflected in the world.
Love is made by being love. Peace is found only in being peace.
See others as children. See how our collective being impacts them.
What do you create? Love, Compassion, and Peace? Or Fear, War, and Hate?
The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
The costume is everything.
"Never compare your inside with somebody else outside."
It has often been declared that the human mind could never comprehend God. That statement has been based upon the assumption that the reason we could never comprehend God is that our senses could not detect God.
It is true that we cannot see God but we can KNOW Him. And therein is the essence of New Age thinking. The next hundred years will see as great a spiritual advance in the culture of our civilization as it has seen physically during the past hundred years. That which we cannot see, we can KNOW. We can see the bodies of men but we cannot see man, for the supreme Being within man is invisible. He cannot be seen. He can only be known. For the same reason we cannot see God but we can know Him, and we can know the nature of God by knowing His laws and creative processes.
When we know the nature of God sufficiently to reflect His nature in us, we become God to the extent of our ability to reflect His nature in us. By knowing the secret of Light, we will know the mystery of life and death – of reincarnation, of matter and space, and the relationship of suns to planets.
The more we know the Light, the more we shall realize our purpose in manifesting that Light gloriously. Every moment of life in the Light is a moment glorification in the awareness of our omnipotence in manifesting the Light.
Someone once asked Toscanini’s son: “What was the highest point in your father’s life?” The answer was: “Every point in it is his highest point. He lives gloriously and fully every moment of his life, whether conducting an orchestra or peeling an orange.”
That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life – live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is.
Contain your experience with the divine so that it does not escape you but rather shapes you. Be silent. Silence will help you avoid engaging in the games of competition and illusion that regularly seduce us in the outside world. Silence also helps you avoid distraction. It helps focus the busy mind---the mind that always has to be doing something, thinking something, the mind that always has to be otherwise engaged lest it become introspective and allow the soul's voice to override its own. The silence I am describing is a silence that you use to contain the grace you receive when you enter the Castle of your soul. This quality of silence allows you to engage in discernment. You carry this silence within you, even when you are with others. It allows you to hold your center amid the chaos of your life; it keeps you clear so that you do not do or say things you will regret or make decisions out of fear.
We are living at a time of great transformation. The spiritual awakening that began in the 1960s needs to mature to its next level, which is a deepening into devotion to a mystical practice while remaining an effective force in the world. And by that I mean remaining in your skin, in your role as who you are. Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the “sacred†part of your “contract†and the true meaning of your highest potential.
You see there are three steps: witnessing the mind, witnessing others and then witnessing yourself. That is the exact way in which it happens. All of this is transferred from inside to outside and then back to you. A perfect reflection of the mind; this is the main way that you can perfect yourself. It is your duty and responsibility to learn from others. Take what is good from others, and incorporate it within yourself. Take what needs enhancing in others and enhance it within.
Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water. Enlightenment does not divide you, just as the moon does not break the water. You cannot hinder enlightenment, just as a drop of water does not hinder the moon in the sky. The depth of the drop is the height of the moon. Each reflection, however long or short its duration, manifests the vastness of the dewdrop, and realizes the limitlessness of the moonlight in the sky.
The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.
You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?
Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water.
It is necessarily true that we are having experiences; it is not necessarily true that what we reflectively consider to have been the content of those experiences has any truth-value whatsoever. This arises from the nature of reflection as we have seen, in which we have objectified an experience and begin to analyze its component parts. Our ability to develop understanding from our experiences is not to be found in reflection, but in the clarity of awareness and the intensity of our focus. How well and how quickly we “get things†depends upon our ability to still our affections and intensify our contemplation of what we are experiencing. How can we possibly pay attention, when our minds are racing, filled with thoughts that our affections are conditioning? To understand quickly we must allow the spontaneous nature of Omnific Awareness to shine through the obstructions that our fears, doubts, desires, and predispositions – those phenomena and their traces that have already arisen and which condition what is arising now – create.
"We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."
In a work environment, conflict shines a negative reflection on you and your pitch.
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
"Just remember when looking in the mirror, it is always looking back at you...the reflections seen are only ever as kind or as ill as your own projections."
Citta [mindstuff] is really the spectacle of which the self is by reflection the spectator.
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
I love men who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will look sourly upon; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it in turn will look sourly at you; laugh at it, and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.
