Quotes About Introspection

Keeping silent blocks both judgment and change.

Anything we think we know about a situation or someone else or even ourselves is always limited by that old trap, point of view. Just as we are all of us stuck in time, so we are also stuck inside ourselves, doomed to live and die inside our own thick skulls. "As

We can never see our own faces directly, never look straight into our own eyes.

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.

They do not die ignorant of either their own follies or of life's worth. Instead, they die in the fullest possible knowledge of who they are, of what they lived for, of the mistakes that they have made.

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

Appreciation starts from yourself, or from nobody at all.

I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Go deeply into the urge to be silent and not the mental interference of how, where and when. If you follow silence to its source you can be taken by it in a moment.

When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.

You are your own nearest environment, so begin with yourself.

achievements. The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.

When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus.

Everybody has his reasons.

You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.

The really terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons.