Quotes About Introspection

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be.

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.

As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.

You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.

The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.

As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.