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Quotes About Introspection

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
~ Thomas Merton
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.
~ Ruth St. Denis
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.
~ Renee O'Connor
We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.
~ Pema Chodron
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me
~ Eckhart Tolle
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
~ Adyashanti
Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.
~ Deepak Chopra
After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.
~ LeVar Burton
Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.
~ George Inness
No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
~ R. D. Laing
There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
~ Terence McKenna
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
What you are looking for is what you are looking with.
~ Ernest Holmes
Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.
~ Paulo Coelho
When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.
~ Frederick Lenz