Quotes About Introspection

Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed.

The conscious is a theatre with a single seat...

It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of the market place...

on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves, while you recite the Scripture [the Tauraat (Torah)]! Have you then no sense?

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

It is a mark of maturity to deal with the problem rather than suppress it

juzgas la realidad de otros no podrás evitar juzgar la tuya propia.

Esto lo expresaba muy claramente Vivekananda cuando afirmaba que "nosotros no sabemos lo que existe allá afuera, lo único que conocemos es nuestra respuesta".

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am, they REVEAL who I am.

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Don't wait to be discovered. Discover yourself.

When we constantly worry and re-examine the past in order to discover what's wrong with the present, we reinforce the same thought process that will create exactly what we are trying to escape.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot.

Don't try to change others; change yourself for betterment.

Some days, we just need to turn the quiet up.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Talking to myself but I never listen.

Do you love me? Or do you not? You told me once, but I forgot. I asked my friends, they said you do. But theyre all high. I hope its true.-

I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions.