Quotes About Introspection

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.