Quotes About Introspection

Ba??m?za bela olan bu zavall? beyin yerine ne diye bize bir kalp daha koymay? ak?l edemedin!

Günlük yaÅŸam?m?z? sürdürmemiz için sahip olduÄŸumuz çeÅŸit çeÅŸit duygular?n aras?ndan bir seçim yapmak, bizim için bir üstünlük belirtisi mi yoksa derin bir üzüntü nedeni mi?

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

If one busies himself with an outer display of scriptural wealth, what time is left for silent inward diving after the priceless pearls?" Sri

It is not easy to criticize others accurately and kindly until you know that you can first criticize yourself perfectly. When you can clearly picture the faults of others and look at those faults with a sympathetic attitude, as if they were your own, then you are correct in your criticism.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond."— Persian proverb.

La capacidad para discernir sobre la colocación de una coma no remedia un estado de coma espiritual

Judge ye not others; judge yourself. If you love to talk loudly about the faults of others, then satisfy that lust by loudly talking about your own secret faults, and see how you like it even for a minute. If you cannot stand one minute's publicity about your own faults, then you must not rejoice in exposing others.

Continual intellectual study may result in vanity, false satisfaction and undigested knowledge.

But what original commentary can you supply, from the uniqueness of your particular life? What holy text have you absorbed and made your own? In what ways have these timeless truths renovated your nature? Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of other men?

Self-scrutiny, relentless observance of one's thoughts, is a stark and shattering experience. It pulverises the stoutest ego. But true self-analysis mathematically operates to produce seers.

What one does not trouble to find within will not be discovered by transporting the body hither and yon.

From your balanced life, they will understand that liberation is dependent on inner, rather than outer, renunciations.' "How

I looked around the room at the numerous

Do you know the Bhagavad Gita?" "No, sir, not really; though my eyes and mind have run through its pages many times." "Thousands have replied to me differently!" The great sage smiled at Master in blessing. "If one busies himself with an outer display of scriptural wealth, what time is left for silent inward diving after the priceless pearls?

What made his face burn was a sense of failure, the yearning for freedom that remained unfulfilled and the acute realisation that he didn't know anything.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The best books are those whose readers think they could have written them.

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.

Totusi, destul de iute simplicitatea actului sexual m-a plictisit; in cele mai rele excese percepeam monotonie si patos mult. Oricat de puternica era desfatarea, ea nu era niciodata destul de puternica. Mi-am dat seama atunci ca trupul e limitat, spre deosebire de gand.