Quotes About Introspection

If we hurry into the holy without preparing our hearts, we will see things not as they are but as we are.

I urged myself to live in a state of complete consciousness, even when that meant pain or boredom." - Pete Hamill.

I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In the years that followed, I did a lot of that.

The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing really happened. You just kept taking steps.

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

So who are you today?

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.

I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.

Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience. Recovery is enhanced immeasurably by developing this helpful process of introspection. As it becomes more developed, mindfulness can be used to recognize and dis-identify from beliefs and viewpoints that you acquired from your traumatizing family.

Writing touches the unconscious in a way that talking does not. It gets beyond the old, to the truth of the real stories within.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself". - Jane Eyre

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

If you bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will destroy you. —THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

The problem with deep thinking was it could lead to unpleasant conclusions.

He glanced at her in what she thought seemed a normal way. Everyone else was trying to peer into her soul, to measure the pain inside.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

he found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling.

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

Singing wordlessly over the song's (and the album's) final moments, Bruce evokes the opening bars of "Something in the Night," and the chill cloaking the entire album: the creeping suspicion that the things that make you feel the most alive will turn out to be some combination of unobtainable, worthless, and self-destructive.