Quotes About Introspection

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.