Quotes About Introspection

You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.

Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.

Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

Consult your spirit, your soul on everything.

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.