Quotes About Introspection

When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

The root of prayer is interior silence.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

True prayer is a lonely business.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.