Quotes About Introspection

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

First with the head, then with the heart.

Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

I don't really get into the power sufficiently, and that's also a problem for me.

Greatness knows itself.

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Silence is a place of great power and healing.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words...

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

we only shout when we neglect what silence can do