Quotes About Introspection

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.

key intentional questions: • What is most important to you about this? • What is surprising to you right now? • What is inspiring you? • What is challenging you?

They certainly read and watch videos like the rest of us. But they tend to spend much more time pouring information out of their consciousness than sucking information into their consciousness.

My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.

Purchè ne sia capace, è probabile che gli esseri umani non badino troppo se rimango estraneo alle loro vite. L'unica cosa che debbo evitare, è di riuscir molesto ai loro occhi; sarò nulla, sarò vento, il cielo.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

How do you casually listen to something that makes the walls of your heart crumble?

The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned

Even the mantis has stopped praying

I'm a recovering abstainer

As Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes At The Point Of Death, Let's Hope The Ad Breaks Have Been Edited Out

Time to silence the Hegelian Dialect

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.

Those who try and fix the world are usually those who have trouble fixing the fundamental problems in their own lives

at the end of all our exploring we will arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

intrepid outward exploration of the landscape and a revealing inward journey of the self. These are the things that keep me going, the lust for exploration and the quest to better comprehend who I am and what I'm made of.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

The kaleidoscope remains the most efficacious instrument for those of us who've been shattered. There's so much I can't explain if someone would just give me the chance...

Helping to correct the solipsistic tendencies of abstract contemplation is one of the most important roles of bodywork.

She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.