Quotes About Introspection

In diesem Moment wurde mir klar, wie vereinsamt ich war: Schon bei der kleinsten zwischenmenschlichen Zuwendung brach ich beinahe in Tränen aus.

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.

Yesterday, I cried. I came home, went straight to my room, sat on the edge of my bed, kicked off my shoes, unhooked my bra, and I had myself a good cry.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't..

Watching the moon at dawn, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

The way I must enter leads through darkness to darkness- O moon above the mountain's rim, please shine a little further on my path,

How do we know that we exist? No one knows. Not so, you say. I think, therefore I exist. But how do you know that you think? No one knows that either. You just do.

The purpose of meditation is not so much changing what we see as changing the way we see it.

Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over one's own biography means to get clear about who one wants to be.

But we cannot make whatever encompasses us an object without moving out of it. We do not see the eyes we see with. We cannot perceive the place where we are standing unless we leave it.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Een mens is te klein voor dit leven.

Licht holt uit. Een mens zit ook zo vol gaten. Een mens zou geslotener moeten zijn. Op den duur kan men niets meer binnenhouden.

Few men become who they want to be. Fewer still learn who that even is.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Experience does not interpret itself.

Those who do not accept conscience as a teacher must face it as an accuser.

deliberation cannot be merely an extension of sense, for we are capable of being attracted by non-sensible objects like knowledge and justice. Still

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

To penetrate the unknown, the mind must begin with what is known already. George Orwell wrote that "We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." This book is an attempt at re-statement.

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.