Quotes About Introspection

For the Lord seeth not as a man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." The heart is the primary organ of sense, hence the first cause of experience. When you look "on the heart" you are looking at your assumptions: assumptions determine your experience. Watch your assumption with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. Assumptions have the power of objective realization.

William Blake: "In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

When you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret and your Father which is in secret shall reward you openly" [Matthew 6:6].

So, "examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?" (II Corinthians 13:5) Read

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses. To break this hypnotic spell of the senses you are told, "Go within and shut the door." The door of the senses must be tightly shut before your new claim can be honoured. Closing the door of the senses is not as difficult as it appears to be at first. It is done with effort.

This experience has convinced me that man can be anything he pleases if he will make the conception habitual and think from the end. It has also shown me that I can no longer excuse myself by placing the blame on the world of external things—that my good and my evil have no dependency except from myself—that it depends on the state from which I view the world how things present themselves.

It is our inner conversations which make tomorrow's facts.

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to your faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?" (II Corinthians 13:5)

All meditation ends at last with the thinker, and he finds he is what he, himself, has conceived.

Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man's inner talking.

You will from time to time know yourself to be many things, but you need not be anything to know that you are.

I dwell within every conception of myself; from this withinness I ever seek to transcend all conceptions of myself. By the very law of my being I transcend my conceptions of myself, only as I believe myself to be that which does transcend.

The journey is in yourself. You travel along the highways of the inner world. Without inner movement it is impossible to bring forth anything. Inner action is introverted sensation. If you will construct mentally a drama which implies that you have realised your objective, then close your eyes and drop your thoughts inward, centering your imagination all the while in the predetermined action and partake in that action, you will become a self-determined being.

His concept of himself is the cause of all the circumstances of his life. All changes must first come from within himself; and if he does not change on the outside it is because he has not changed within.

No man can lift you to the level you desire. The power to ascend is within yourself; it is your consciousness.

Most of us think that we are kind and loving, generous and tolerant, forgiving and noble; but an uncritical observation of our reactions to life will reveal a self that is not all kind and loving, generous and tolerant, forgiving and noble. And it is is this self that we must first accept and then set about to change…

El hombre, sin saber que su mundo es su conciencia individual exteriorizada, en vano se esfuerza por ajustarse a la opinión de los demás en lugar de ajustarse a la única opinión existente, es decir, su propio juicio de sí mismo.

With Emerson, I accept the fact that: "Man surrounds himself with the true image of himself…what we are, that only can we see.

To think is to speak low, to speak is to think aloud.

Man, not knowing that his world is his individual consciousness outpictured, vainly strives to conform to the opinion of others rather than to conform to the one and only opinion existent, namely, his own judgement of himself.

I am drowning: what use would be looking back to the shore from which I fell?

By shifting his gaze slightly, he saw frame in the sitting room window, a landscape aloof from man. Its beauty was perfectly articulate yet utterly remote. Against his will he was moved by it as an unmusical listener may be profoundly disturbed by sound forms that he is unable to comprehend.

Tus propias acciones son un espejo mejor de tu vida que todas las acciones juntas de tus enemigos.