Quotes About Introspection

"What's that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

All sorts of reflections of this nature passed through my mind—for as I grow older I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me...

People who feel quite satisfied, who find no criticism coming from the voice within, are generally failures. They may have been successful up to the present, but failure is written for their futures.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

Nothing held her, she was nothing holding to this thing: I am Hermione Gart, a failure.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Before we can create change, we have to decide something needs to change. Before we can decide something needs to change, we have to accept it as it is. Before we can accept it as it is, we have to be aware of its existence. Awareness is the beginning of all creation.

Explanation of experience pulls us out of experience and into thought

Our projection can provide insight if we are paying attention to our projection

Our reaction to others does not define them, it defines us

The answers we seek are not out there. They are found when we bring our attention inward. Our higher self is already within us. We were born with it. It is who we truly are. It is our essence. We just need to wake up. The question is not, what do we need to do in order to achieve enlightenment. The question is, what do we need to let go of in order for enlightenment to flow.

We are constantly creating. The question is what are we creating?

We either manage our thoughts & emotions or they manage us

We may think about what we experience, but we will experience what we think about

What's going on out there is a projection of what's going on in here

In the depths of my being I have never been one of them. I have just written what I experienced.

A shit needs to be reminded that he is a shit now and then.

The true revolution can only occur within the heart.

J'étais le seul témoin, sur les confessions d'une araignée de l'Isolement.

Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!