Quotes About Introspection

Through intense self-examination and ceaseless selfchallenge, create change, and adjust your track toward growth and completion.

Truly give your all to passionately walking the path of life your soul and conscience have chosen, and boldly embrace all worries coming to you on that path.

As long as I can find hope in myself, there is hope for the future of the earth and the human race. If I fail to discover hope in myself, there is no hope for the earth or the human race. If I discover the goodness of human nature in myself, I can find it in the entire human race. If I fail to discover it in myself, I can't expect it from anyone else, either.

The important thing is to be honest with yourself. And to have the will and determination. My emotions are not me, but mine. My memories are not me, they're mine. I am the master of my emotions and my memories. So now, all you have to do is make up your mind firmly to leave those things behind without attachment or regret, and go through with it.

Where do we begin this process of reevaluation of values? It makes sense to begin with our mind, which is the tool we use to evaluate. Once we make sure it is functioning as it should, we can feel confident in using it to think about our beliefs and priorities.

The important thing is to be honest with yourself and to have the will and the determination.I am the master of my emotions and my memories. All you have to do is to make up your mind firmly to leave those things behind.

No matter how good your eyesight, if you don't open your eyes, you will not see anything. So too with the Tao. Everyone has eyes to see the Tao, but opening those eyes is a separate issue. The Tao is there, in that place beyond the limits of rational logic, judgment, ideas, and ego. To see the Tao, we must take away the blindfold of judgment, ideas, and ego that blinds our eyes.

Those who are able to watch over and beautifully tend the gardens of their minds, are the creators of life. Don't wait for some other person or thing to make your life beautiful. Become the artist of your own life!

Please do not ever stop asking--no matter what. Keep bothering your brain with unwavering persistence until you find an answer. Go deeper and deeper until you meet with your absolute self, your intrinsic, unalterable true self--your changeless nature. You cannot see or touch it, but you can feel it. If you can feel it, you can utilize and live it. It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place.

Who Am I? Why am I here?

The MindScreen is the most highly-developed function of our brain.

Technology is a new evolutionary means of convergence; it is accelerating evolution by causing humankind to concentrate upon itself through complex levels of information.

Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I'd spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn't sold that talking did a whole heck of a lot except let everyone else know what was going on inside your head. It's not like talking ever made anything go away.

Most looked happy. I thought. Hard to tell, actually. What can you tell from a face?

I wish to learn silence from the dark woods, the unused middle rooms, from the girls in their white dresses,

Every day I would run to the library to get new books. Reading was a passion: I wanted to understand life. I read Dostoevsky and Brehm, Jules Verne and Turgenev, Dickens and the Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye; and the more I read, th emore I doubted everything. Lies surrounded me on all sides; one moment I wanted to run off to the Indian jungle, the next to throw a bomb at the governor-general's house on Tverskaya, the next to hang myself.

They say that sometimes a man cannot recognize himself in a looking-glass. It is even harder to recognize oneself in the clouded mirror of the past.

Today I have to screw on the expression of a person thought I am at most an animal and the animal I am spirals

one measure of a book is the degree to which it generates good questions,

For a quick second, when he met my eyes, I knew what he was thinking, too. Malcolm, the troublemaker. Malcolm, the one who won't toe the line. Looking in his eyes—a thing I maybe never did before—it speared me.

Maybe it had been me causing this trouble all along. All my antics. I was the problem, the one who couldn't do right, no matter what.

So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.