Quotes About Introspection

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.

How many things there are which I do not want.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.

They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.