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• We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.]

  William Melmoth

  Gratitude, Should, Wells

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• Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

  Eli Pariser

  Mirrors, Watches, Way

  "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You". Book by Eli Pariser, 2011.

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• THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Warrior, Design, Shrines

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

  Josh Gates

  Home, Growth, Doe

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• A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any theory of organization must be capable of reflecting a company's many facets, its dynamism, and its basic orderliness. When company organization is reviewed, or when reorganizing a company, it must be loked upon as a whole, as a total system.

  Albert Low

  Self, Organization, Growth

  Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books

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• Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Grace, Understanding

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• Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.

  David Holmgren

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Australia

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• Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

  Edward Albee

  Running, Responsibility, Errors

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.116, Da Capo Press

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• Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

  Matsuo Basho

  Jewels, Sky, Mountain

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• The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, Glasses, Mirrors

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• Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Dad, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.107, Penguin

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• They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mirrors

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• My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

  Fiona Apple

  Zebras, Rain, Stripes

  Song: Anything We Want, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

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• I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

  Rumi

  Crush, Kindness, Flower

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• It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Light, Air

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• Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose
  he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.
  But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life
  that one exists for other people.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Reflection

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.

  Darlene Zschech

  Greatness, Musician, Needs

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• Reflecting back on your life is not only food for thought, but a Wiseman's bridge looking at how and why, you made your path for today! Will be most important, when you find yourself at the crossroads of tomorrow. Remember the goals you set yourself, travel the path closest to your heart. Trust your heart, your instincts, your soul.

  Ron Bennington

  Inspirational, Heart, Bridges

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• Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.

  Brian Tracy

  Experience, Learning Everything, Experience And Learning

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

  Charles Handy

  Educational, Learning, People

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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, Reflection

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• When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

  c.479 BC The Analects.

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• Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop greater resolve to put an end to the causes of suffering and the unwholesome deeds which lead to suffering. And it will increase your enthusiasm for engaging in the wholesome actions and deeds which lead to happiness and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Joy, Suffering

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• I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Adversity, Fire

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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