Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

Your inner world reflects your outer world.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

Everyone we attract into our life is a mirror for us in certain ways. All of our relationships reflect certain parts of us. We all attract certain people into our life who have developed qualities opposite to the ones we are most identified with. In other words, they mirror our disowned selves, and we mirror theirs.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

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

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”