Quotes About Introspection

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.