Quotes About Introspection

we are not humans from the start; we need to become human. Toward this end, we need the insight "that only we are responsible for ourselves, that accusations that we have missed our life's calling can be directed only at us, not some higher powers". We are in no need of the delusion of a supernatural world, because the very task of becoming human is the truly colossal achievement.

Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

The student is told to set apart moments in his daily life in which to withdraw into himself, quietly and alone. He is not to occupy himself at such moments with the affairs of his own ego. This would result in the contrary of what is intended. He should rather let his experiences and the messages from the outer world re-echo within his own completely silent self. At such silent moments every flower, every animal, every action will unveil to him secrets undreamt of.

for anyone else until you have wisely and effectively understood and undertaken to change yourself?

for how can you become wise and effective for anyone else until you have wisely and effectively understood and undertaken to change yourself?

you will not be good teachers if you focus only upon what you do and not upon what you are.

It is easy to decide what men ought to be; but the student works in the depths, not on the surface.

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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.

I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim? His soul repeated it again and again.

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

He who rebukes the World is rebuked by the World

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in.     ââ'¬â€Hindu Proverb.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

Ahae! My heart is heavy with the things that I do not understand.

I will remember what I was. i am sick of rope and chain.

Take anything and everything seriously, except yourselves.

think there is a great deal in you; but you must not become proud and you must not talk.

There is no pride,' said the lama, after a pause, 'there is no pride among such as follow the Middle Way.

By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.

Estaba confuso. Se miró las botas con tristeza, él que siempre había ido descalzo. ¿Quién soy yo?, se preguntó. Yo soy Kimball O'Hara, un blanco, un sahib. No, un sahib, no. Yo soy Kim. Pero, ¿quién es Kim?. Él, Kim, en medio del rugiente torbellino de la India, no era más que un ser insignificante que iba hacia el sur, ignorando lo que el destino iba a depararle.