Quotes About Introspection

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

I cannot pretend i am not without fear.

I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.