Quotes About Introspection

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.