Quotes About Introspection

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.

I don't really think I know myself. I don't quite get how K-pop is functioning. But I'm certain that we need to grab the approval when we have the chance.

But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint' always good for me.

Although it is embarassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you're sneaky, all the ways hat you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways.

Make the dharma personal, explore it wholeheartedly, and relax.

elemental struggle is with our feeling of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Labeling our thoughts during meditation practice is a powerful support that reconnects us with the fresh, open, unbiased dimension of our mind.

When you find yourself slumping, that's the motivation to sit up, not out of self-denigration but actually out of pride in everything that occurs to you, pride in who you are just as you are, pride in the goodness or the fairness or the worstness of yourself—however you find yourself—some sort of sense of taking pride and using it to spur you on.

How honest do we want to be with ourselves?

The truth is that when we really begin to do this, we're going to be continually humbled. There's not going to be much room for the arrogance that holding on to ideals can bring. The arrogance that inevitably does arise is going to be continually shot down by our own courage to step forward a little further.

What we hate in ourselves, we'll hate in others. To the degree that we have compassion for ourselves, we will also have compassion for others.

we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way.

A través de la meditación desarrollamos una lealtad hacia nosotros mismos, que se traduce inmediatamente en lealtad a la propia experiencia vital.

We're able to see how we run and hide and keep ourselves busy so that we never have to let our hearts be penetrated.

In cultivating loving-kindness, we learn first to be honest, loving, and compassionate toward ourselves.

It's painful to face how we harm others, and it takes a while. It's a journey that happens because of our commitment to gentleness and honesty, our commitment to staying awake, to being mindful.