Mental Reflection Quotes

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

'Time in a Tree' is a song about when you find yourself in a busy state of mind, which I often find myself in. Sometimes it can feel like you can't physically get out of it, or you can't mentally or physically bring yourself out of that... it's like having traffic in your brain.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Speech is the index of the mind.

He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

I don't always enjoy curating, but I do believe it's part of my job. It's a good exercise for my brain, like warming up. Just focusing on my work would be so depressing! For me, curating is necessary - it's like physical training.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.