Quotes About Introspection

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.

I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.

When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

Curving back within myself I create the world around me.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.