Psychological Reflection Quotes

Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Speech is the index of the mind.

I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling that's so pure, or overwhelming inside of you that your body disfigures to it - contortions match your confusion.

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have a breather,' where in another novel you'd slow the pace, have some description and see what Bond feels about this. But Bond doesn't reflect. All you can do is move on to the next bomb or shark or car.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I think what's so brilliant about 'Black Mirror' is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Ultimately, our ideas about robots are not about robots. The robot is a canvas onto which we project our hopes and our dreams and our fears... they become embodiments of those hopes and dreams and fears.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.