Quotes About Self-examination

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

He lay, panting heavily in the wet air, and tried feeling bits of himself to see where he might be hurt. Wherever he touched himself, he encountered a pain. After a short while he worked out that this was because it was his hand that was hurting.

Here's the thing about darkness: It turns the mind inward.

What is required after a glimpse of awakening is radical honesty, a willingness to look at how we unenlighten ourselves, how we bring ourselves back into the gravitational force of the dream state, how we allow ourselves to be divided.

What is required is the willingness to let life impact you; to let yourself see when life impacts you; to see if you go into any sort of separation about it, if you go into judgment, if you go into blame, if you go into "should" or "shouldn't," if you start to point the finger somewhere other than at yourself.

Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.

I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.

One must seek the truth within – not without.

He was engaged at the moment in a careful stocktaking of his thoughts and emotions.

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

My personality doesn't interest me.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

The examined life is no picnic.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.

Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

She had seen early in life that there was none in this world to audit one's soul. A man could deform himself into the most miserable of creatures, and no holy hand would descend from the clouds and cry Halt. And if there was no auditor, then one must audit one's own soul, tenaciously and without mercy.

I was tired of being me.

Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain?

recognize their own vituperous thought shaming.