Quotes About Introspection

Perhaps rather than concerning ourselves with trying to form a relationship with God, we should instead become fully aware of the relationship that already exists.

Like most people born into a religious tradition, my faith was as familiar to me as my skin, and just as disregardable.

If you cannot change the kings," the Sufis argued, "then change yourself.

Telling the truth is an important part of discovering who you are

You can't accept another if you don't accept yourself

No me interesa curarme, sólo quiero cambiar las alucinaciones. ¿Se

No puedo decir nada, salvo leer y recordar frases ajenas.

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Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels... it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea.

I don't know where ideas come from. They come from outer space or God, if you like, or from my subconscious mind. But I never go ou self-consciously looking for a story.

I'm the one who ought to get angry," said Fiver. "But I'm no good at it, that's the trouble.

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It's only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change.

Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is...? ...ourselves.

Everything above may be wrong!

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?

Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

You gave your life to become you are right now. Was it worth it?

In every disaster, in every blessing, ask, Why me?       There's a reason, of course, there's an answer.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer! ---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories