Quotes About Introspection

Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know."—Tao Te Ching

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. —Thomas Merton

If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light.

To reconnect consciousness with the unconscious, to make consciousness symbolical is to reconnect words with silence; to let the silence in. If consciousness is all words and no silence, the unconscious remains unconscious."—N.O. Brown

The quieter you become the more you can hear.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.

But you know, you really don't have to worry about whether everybody else is doing it or not. You just begin to get your own house in order. Recognizing your complete interrelatedness with all of it and with your own spiritual source changes the meaning of each act, and therefore both the reason and the way it's done.

My colleagues and I were 9 to 5 psychologists: we came to work every day and we did our psychology, just like you would do insurance or auto mechanics, and then at 5 we went home and were just as neurotic as we were before we went to work. Somehow, it seemed to me, if all of this theory were right, it should play more intimately into my own life.

If you observe well, your own heart will answer."—de Lubicz

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.

In The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, Thaddeus Golas says, "You never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

If somebody at work is a problem for you, they're not the one who needs to change. If someone is a problem for you, it's you who needs to change. If you feel they're causing you trouble, that's your problem. It's on you. Your job is to clear yourself.

I started to get extremely, extremely depressed. I'm sure part of it was due to the hashish.

The witness is not evaluative. It does not judge your actions. It merely notes them. Thus, if you perform an act because of desire, such as eating something that is not sattvic (helpful to your sadhana), and then you put yourself down for having eaten it... the witness—when it finally appears—would merely note: (a) he is eating such-and-such, and (b) he is putting himself down for eating such-and-such.

The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

Motivations and desires affect our perceptions. We don't necessarily see things as they are. We see them as we are.

Instead of always preoccupying ourselves with trying to get what we think we want or need, we'll start to quiet, we'll start to listen. We'll wait for that inner prompting. We'll try to hear, rather than decide, what it is we should do next.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

Randy Boyagoda

Things you did at night could be pretty embarrassing in the light of day.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Assumptions are what the brain is best at. Some days, I suspect that makes us despair.