Quotes About Introspection

Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

The evidence for God is within us, but to see it we have to be subtle. To live it, we have to grow.

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

Raise you awareness and cultivate your uniqueness.

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.

After Georgie, something had changed in our marriage, and there was nowhere solid to put the blame. We were almost forty, and simultaneously our marriage had - I don' know - thickened, agglutinated, become oatmeal-like. Differences between us that had once provided sparks now seemed inefficient. Was there love? Yes, yes - but at the margins. At the center, there was administration.

I could never give it a name, my condition. I would have said, "I'm depressed," if that had felt sufficient. But I felt more than depressed. I felt that I was depression. A swallowed woman.

Where does a mistake begin?" his wife asks at the start of the book. "Did my mistake begin with the boat? Or my marriage itself?

Michael and I both recognized we had problems, we just couldn't agree on the solution. I think what was happening was, I wasn't just talking about the implausible plan to walk away from our house and the kids' schools and Michael's job, no matter how assured we would be of getting these things back. I was wondering, whether we were to go or to stay, what would we do— about us?

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

Physicist Richard Feynman once said that analysis is how we try not to fool ourselves.129

And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.

But in the morning everything can, and must, be seen. Daylight takes us; it peels us like fruit.

If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait.

Whitman said, 'I am as bad as the worst but, thank God, I am as good as the best.' You ought to spend more time with people who know how bad they are.

The greatest struggle in my life is between a dignified silence and having my say.

When I read that I thought, I am almost fifty years old and the rest of my life will be love and loss, and when I look down the road, I see a fat old woman and her dog, is what I see.