Quotes About Introspection

The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~

All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.

If you know something is true, you don't need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.

How do I contribute to end the suffering of humanity?" is the most important question you will ever ask. The answer to that question begins with your answer to the question, "How do I end my own suffering?" If you can find your own way out of pain, you will know how to help other people out of their pain. Until then your efforts are hollow

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

It takes courage to leave behind the world you have been taught is so important, and instead claim what is right for you. Ultimately we must, as Walt Whitman urged, "Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

The desire to change others cloaks your desire to change yourself.

If you fear looking at your true self, you'll find many ways to distract yourself from it. Busyness, drama, and addictions are ways of avoiding facing yourself. To find the peace you seek, stop running and just he. Get to know who you really are. Remember the wholeness you felt before you joined the rush to nowhere. Then you'll recognize yourself through the eyes of love, and everything will be different.

Geographical cures rarely work. You can extricate yourself from a place, but you cannot escape your own thoughts. Move somewhere to get away from an uncomfortable situation, and you will likely recreate the drama with a few set of actors playing the same roles. Heal your mind, and you are free anywhere.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us

Without going outside, you may know the whole world. Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the wise know without traveling; See without looking; Work without doing.

You cannot evaluate an insane belief system from within it.

our first responsibility is to remove the weeds from our own garden. We must take the high road ourselves before exhorting others to do so.

Every journey you take leads you back to yourself.

The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.

But patience had to be learned alone.

It is you," Ren murmured.

Alone . . . alone . . . It echoed in her mind as she sat there. Under the weight of the loneliness Han's voice seemed to fade, and Maz Kanata's as well, until there was nothing surrounding her but a silence as deep and profound as the distant reaches of space itself.

I talk to myself," he had once explained to his minder. "I have conversations with myself. I debate with myself." He remembered smiling. "Sometimes I even win the arguments.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

Something happened when you looked in the mirror together. You asked it, as always, a question, and you asked each other something too; and the space, shadowy but glossy, the further room in which you found yourself, as if on a stage, vibrated with ironies and sentimental admissions.

Outside, beyond where the light from our window fell, there was a deep inner well. The roof in which these rooms were built dropped steeply away, and facing us across the void were other similar dormers, unlit, their windows open into shadowy stillness. Above the roofline the sky was amorously transformed by the pink glare of the London dusk.

As often with older people he was both bored and unaccountably involved at the same time.

I was applying myself to the subtler connoisseurship of the out-of-season, days without warmth and nights without encounters, empty pleasure-grounds and the violence of the tides.