Quotes About Introspection

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

Escribir es que le dejen a uno llorar y reír a solas".

Hay un momento en que el astrónomo, debajo del gran telescopio, se convierte en microbio del microscopio de la luna que se asoma a observarle

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.

Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself — like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down — one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs.

Silence is also conversation.

It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

So long as they make efforts they will not be sages (jnanis).

One can know oneself only with one's own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else's. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?

First set yourself right, and only then set out to improve others. Change the hearts of men and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere; and one can only begin with oneself.

What the mind has to do is not to suggest a reply, but to remain quiet so that the true reply can arise.