Quotes About Introspection

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.