Quotes About Introspection

And before you embark on an argument or a debate, ask yourself honestly if you are ready to change your mind.

eminent monotheists in all three faiths—that instead of waiting for God to descend from on high, I should deliberately create a sense of him for myself.

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instead of waiting for God to descend from on high, I should deliberately create a sense of him for myself.

You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self.

if they did not interrogate their most fundamental beliefs, they would live superficial, expedient lives, because "the unexamined life is not worth living."7

Like any Platonist, he experienced knowledge as remembrance, as known to him already at some profound level of his being.

Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the plank in your own?

The Golden Rule requires self-knowledge; it asks that we use our own feelings as a guide to our behavior with others. If we treat ourselves harshly, this is the way we are likely to treat other people. So we need to acquire a healthier and more balanced knowledge of our strengths as well as our weaknesses. As

What do you think Socrates meant when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"? Third

In your mindfulness practice, notice how often, without thinking, you try to manipulate, control, or exploit others—sometimes in tiny and apparently unimportant ways.

man of the Axial Age, Confucius wanted people to become fully conscious of what they were doing. Performance of the li was

Si te consideras sabio, aseguraban, ¡puedes dar prácticamente por seguro que no lo eres!

Every day I examine myself on three counts: in what I have undertaken on another's behalf, have I failed to do my best? In my dealings with my friends, have I failed to be trustworthy in what I say? Have I passed on to others anything that I have not tried out myself?71

we may need to find a way of posing Socratic questions that lead to personal insight rather than simply repeating the facts as we see them yet again. We

I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night.

I want you to get out a nice note card or piece of stationery and write a letter to yourself. Yes. To yourself. In it, encourage yourself with what you have learned from this journey. What do you need to work on? Why do you need to work on it? What relationships are being damaged or precious time and memories lost because of how you interact with those in your life, whether they are family, friend, or even foe? Spend some time thinking about this and then let your pen and paper do the talking.

Nonsense. One day, the right man will come along, and you'll change your mind." Harriet wasn't so sure. In all her twenty-four years, she'd never met a single man who had managed to make her feel anything more than acute irritation.

It is surprising how many times a good feeling can be confused with a bad one. Often one is unsure which feeling it really is until much later.

to say that dust bunnies were the spirit animals of creatives.

Most people managed to evade home truths with astonishing ease.

He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

A quote hung on the opposite wall: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.