Quotes About Self-examination

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Your own actions are a better mirror of your life than the actions of all your enemies put together.

I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.

How can you explain something that you cant even understand yourself

I am in my own head most of the time.

Many times I looked in the mirror and didn't see anything. Couldn't see anything. I didn't see anything in the mirror. It was me, but I didn't truly know my soul, my spirit.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images,' wrote Cocteau.

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

Eres, o te llamas Eragon? -Las dos.

Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel

No temamos nunca ni a los ladrones ni a los asesinos: esos son los peligros exteriores, los pequeños peligros. Las preocupaciones, esas son los ladrones; los vicios, esos son los asesinos. Los grandes peligros existen dentro de nosotros. ¿Qué importa lo que amenaza a nuestra cabeza o a nuestra bolsa? Pensemos con preferencia en lo que amenaza a nuestra alma.

No temamos nunca a los ladrones ni a los asesinos. Temamonos a nosotros mismos, porque los grandes peligros se encuentran dentro de nosotros

It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought;

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?

Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and--butter and cheese not withstanding--Neve had no question that Spear was the latter.

The ego is the mind that misunderstands the nature of the I. We generally feel that the I exists somewhere vaguely within the body. To gain a correct picture of reality, it is necessary to investigate deeply and try to find out exactly where this I resides. When we make a thorough search for our self, looking throughout our entire body and nervous system, we can never find it. Sometimes we may think we have located it, but upon closer examination we can see that we have been deceived.

I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus we question them. We cannot help it.

Part of the rediscovery process is figuring out what you think about the person looking back at you in the mirror.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)