Quotes & Questions

Reflection Questions How has being centered influenced your connection with others? What have you learned about yourself after reflecting on an exchange with another person? How has the fear of not being enough impacted you? If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it’s…

Reflection Questions What prevents you from finding peace within yourself? What do you need in order to find peace within yourself? What prevents you from living at peace with others? When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. – Peace Pilgrim

Reflection Questions What insight have you gained through contemplation? How has that served you? How has it impacted how to connect with others? What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. ~Meister Eckhart

Reflection Questions What is the last thing that inspired awe within you? How would you describe it? How often do you allow yourself to be moved by the mysterious? The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion…

Reflection Questions How quickly do you jump to judgment when something happens? How do you move yourself into a space of acceptance? Acceptance is observation of life and suspension of judgment about whether what is happening is good or bad, right or wrong. – Ron Smotherman

Reflection Questions What is your relationship with Nature? How well do you know silence? How are the two connected? See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~Mother Teresa

Reflection Questions What is a trait within another that chafes you? How does that trait appear within you? What other aspects do you try to keep in the shadows within you? Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a…

Reflection Questions How willing are you to open your heart to another in need? How do you view your ability to offer compassion? How does self-judgment interfere with offering compassion? Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition…

Reflection Questions How does your spiritual self support your human awakening? Who do you know yourself to be? How do you support your own awakening? We think of ourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact we are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing ourselves from the perspective…

Reflection Questions What have you learned from an inner journey? How has that changed your life? What else have you learned as a result? There’s a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very shadowy places. You’re going to learn…