Quotes About Introspection

How do I explain that having the chance to take a breather midlife and evaluate everything is rarer than a double rainbow?

The maxim 'Know thyself,' can be a sharp and painful sword, but it must be endured in order to be a True Human Being.

Here is the beginning of integrity. A human being who deeply looks into himself or herself and asks: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Why is anything here? Why are other people here? Where is here? and so forth, begins to find within himself or herself their authentic beliefs.

Dive right into the Heart of Blame and leave your titles, your imagined "position" in the tekke, your sense of being "special," and other subtle ways that try to communicate to people that you are 'spiritual'.

Avoid groups of people who are arguing.

People blame God for this or that, when instead they should be facing what is inside them.

The dervishes (or Sufis) have a saying, 'The dervish is the mirror of the dervish.' In other words, the universe is the mirror of the magickian's unconscious. Remember that fact and you will never be dismayed for all is your realm to rule. For all will be plain to you. Whatever you experience will always and only be yourself. Whatever you change within your unconscious will always and only be the universe.

One goal of the daily time of contemplation is to become aware of the essential in life, to become aware of that, which does not change upon death. If you can find that which is eternal in yourselves, suddenly your lives will have attained much significance and meaning.

Ultimately, the mirror reflects our mortality; when we gaze in the mirror, we gaze at a skeleton.

If you look at a person and see a monster, know that you are being shown a monster lurking in your own dungeon.

You acknowledge that you are both the one praying and the one being prayed to.

Q. Why do you write? A. I have found no other way of getting rid of my thoughts.

Of each particular thing, ask: "What is it in itself, in its own construction?" —Marcus Aurelius

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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

The tendency to brood and ruminate is typical of this survival style. These individuals ruminate after personal encounters, berating themselves about whether they did or said the right thing, chastising themselves for any "mistakes" they feel they made in the interaction, wondering if they said the right thing or hurt the person's feelings.

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

Truman was so self-absorbed that it took him a long while to realize Marella had taken him out of her life.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

a journey into the unknown in the world without produces a movement towards new and unknown areas in our world within.