Quotes About Introspection

Todo lo que nos rodea desde la cuna es un espectáculo pero la conciencia de ser espectáculo sólo se produce tras observar aquel cuerpo desnudo que por primera vez es observado desde el lado de la desnudez.

Me río de mí mismo cuando soy ese infeliz que se mira el ombligo y cree saber mucho de la vida.

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.

Jeff had learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art.

He has lived cloaked so long, he did not know how to reveal his heart.

What will it be like to be one instead of half of two?

they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

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

Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.

When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy...

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

Live the questions.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

The only journey is the one within.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

If you don't go within you go without.