Quotes About Introspection

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" 1

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.

There is nothing the ego likes less than to hear about itself.

When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

Si no puedes sentirte a gusto cuando estás solo, buscarás una relación para remediar tu inquietud.

Pero ¿necesitas tener una relación contigo mismo? ¿Por qué no puedes simplemente ser tú mismo? Para tener una relación contigo mismo te divides en dos: «yo» y «mí mismo», sujeto y objeto.

Once you have understood the basic principle of being present as the watcher of what happens inside you — and you "understand" it by experiencing it — you have at your disposal the most potent transformational tool.

I could feel myself being sucked into a void.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness.

Me pregunto ¿es lo que pienso que es o es algo completamente diferente?

I cannot live with myself any longer." This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. "Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with." "Maybe," I thought, "only one of them is real.

the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy

Of course, you are not usually conscious of all your thought patterns, and it is often only through watching your emotions that you can bring them into awareness.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within, secondary reality without.

True change happens within, not without.

If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depths to you as a human being–no humility, no compassion. You would not be listening to this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego. And then comes a point where it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize that it is unnecessary.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

At some level, however, she must have realized that her pain originated within herself, that she was a burden to herself. She was ready to awaken, and this is why she had come.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. But it is no more than a form of ego, and as such, it is completely impersonal. It has nothing to do with who that person is, nor has it anything to do with who you are.

But beware: some people who are unresponsive, withdrawn, insensitive, or cut off from their feelings may try to convince others that there is nothing wrong with them and everything wrong with their partner. Men tend to do that more than women.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are.

You need to make others wrong in order to get a stronger sense of who you are.

Any "story" can be told in dozens of different ways. For that very reason, I believe, every time you go back and reexamine an important chapter in your life, you learn something new about it.