Quotes About Introspection

Therefore the Sufi attends to his own journey, and does not judge others.

For those on the spiritual path, thinkers, students and meditative souls, it is of the greatest importance to know the condition of their spirit from time to time by consulting their voice. That is their barometer.

Every motion contains within itself a thought and feeling.

It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something—but he does not know where it leads him.

and the sense of justice makes one wish to judge oneself before judging others.

Impression is a great phenomenon in itself: as a man thinketh so is he.

Es gibt nichts auf der Welt, was für kontemplative Menschen nicht erreichbar wäre, wenn sie nur wissen, wie man kontempliert. (S 162)

Mostly, every soul seems to be busily occupied with the lives of others. And what do they know in the end? Nothing. If there is a kingdom of God to be found anywhere, it is within oneself.

Every seeker after truth must remember one thing: that the first step in the path of truth is to become true to oneself.

Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Christians ought to be troubled by the postmodern rejection of moral absolutes. But in responding, the first task is to get our own house in order.

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

sometimes you have to be alone to think and sometimes the best place for thinking is'int home.

She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You couldn't sit with her and converse with her like you can normal people." It wasn't pride, he thought, that made her this way. "Shyness came into it. She couldn't lend herself to people. She was a little bit aloof from people, and I don't think she intended to be.

They were of her, but not her—a looking glass that reflected the possibility of what might or might not be, and she could not resist plumbing their depths as she sought to understand her own.

The world is not always ours to understand....

I believe that there's more to life than what we see.

You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.

Nothing mattered to him about a person other than what was inside them.

It takes hard work to say, "This is how I am," in a calm voice, without anxiously addressing how you should be.

Even natural wonders aren't what they used to be, because nothing can be experienced without commentary. In the 1950s, we worried about how TV would affect our culture. Now our entire lives are a terrible talk show that we can't turn off. It often feels like we're struggling to find ourselves and each other in a crowded, noisy room. We are plagued, around the clock, by the shouting and confusion and fake intimacy of the global community, mid-nervous breakdown.

Adults are not always so fun. Sometimes I go to parties filled with mature people who know things and act their age and I"m quickly filled with despair. I walk in the door and greet the host and mill about, but in the pit of my stomach I know that leaving home was a mistake. I will not be surprised and delighted. I will not learn something new. I will not even enjoy the sound of my own voice. I will be lulled into a state of excruciating paralysis and self-hatred and other-people hatred.

I wasn't sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself.