Quotes About Introspection

Become conscious of being conscious.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Never forget which way you face

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?