Quotes About Introspection

Vitoria il judeca pe Lipan. Avea ea sa-i spuie multe, si le spunea, fara sa miste buzele si limba. I le spunea din launtru, cu banuieli si suferinti vechi.

The ultimate test for the ability to control the quality of experience is what a person does in solitude, with no external demands to give structure to attention.

But no social change can come about until the consciousness of individuals is changed first. When a young man asked Carlyle how he should go about reforming the world, Carlyle answered, "Reform yourself. That way there will be one less rascal in the world." The advice is still valid. Those who try to make life better for everyone without having learned to control their own lives first usually end up making things worse all around.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Whenever the outside world offers no mercy, an internal symbolic system can become a salvation.

Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.

Of course my own self exists solely in my own consciousness; in that of others who know me there will be versions of it, most of them probably unrecognizable likenesses of the "original"—myself as I see me.

Si te sientes dolido por las cosas externas, no son éstas las que te molestan, sino tu propio juicio acerca de ellas.

Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions, and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out.

one's neighbors, and think about God—if these are the things one has decided are worth pursuing. But it is difficult to accomplish any of them unless one has earlier acquired the habit of using solitude

Ask yourself whether you are happy," said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude," goes the old saying that Francis Bacon repeated, "is either a wild beast or a god.

The roots of the discontent are internal, and each person must untangle them personally, with his or her own power.

O el malestar penetrante que a menudo nos amarga hasta los instantes más preciosos es el resultado de buscar la felicidad en el lugar equivocado?

Learning to use time alone, instead of escaping from it, is especially important in our early years. Teenagers who can't bear solitude disqualify themselves from later carrying out adult tasks that require serious mental preparation.

Without interest in the world, a desire to be actively related to it, a person becomes isolated into himself.

you don't conquer anything except things in yourself…. The act of writing justifies poetry.

Ask yourself whether you are happy," said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so." It

for real growth, it is necessary to find people whose opinions are interesting and whose conversation is stimulating. A more difficult, but in the long run even more useful, skill to acquire is the ability to tolerate solitude, and to even enjoy it.

la soledad es el patrimonio de la edad adulta.

She counted absent-mindedly on her

My spirit welled up in its joy because I asked myself "why?" The dread key to all true knowledge is "why?

Living in hope comes from seeing things the way they really are. It starts with checking our own perspectives before trying to influence the perspectives of others. It's about changing from the inside out.

In 1997 I began working as an assistant professor at Caltech, and I realized that I didn't really know what I was doing.