Quotes About Introspection

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.