Quotes About Introspection

Deep experience is never peaceful.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.