Quotes About Soul-searching

Truth is within ourselves.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

An' here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again -Bob Dylan, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (1966)

God, who am I?

The only way out is in.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days…

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

Introspection! I hate it!

I'm an introspective dude.

I'm a very introspective individual.

You find God by looking within. Looking at the outside world trying to find God is like looking through a telescope at the Moon trying to find atoms and molecules.

You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.

Maybe the problem isn't everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you.

Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life...It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.

That's when my analysis began. That's when Marion began what Carl Jung would call the "night sea journey." That's when Marion began pointing her sails into the wind of the unconscious, and made the journey into the parts of herself that had been exiled to the basement and the attic of her body and soul. With the help of her analyst, she made the irrevocable decision to accept whatever she found there.

The Question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within

The Question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within

You'll never be able to find yourself if you're lost in someone else.

I think there's a very strong Calvinistic bias against a free lunch. The idea that you could achieve a spiritual insight without suffering, soul-searching, flagellation, and that sort of thing, is abhorrent to people because they believe that the vision of these higher dimensions should be vouchsafed to the good, and probably to them only after death. It is alarming to people to think that they could take a substance like psilocybin or DMT and have these kinds of experiences.

Deep in the leather armchair of his soul

I sometimes astonish my patients by telling them that it is far more important that they should be able to lose themselves than that they should be able to find themselves. For it is only in losing oneself that one does find oneself.

Brooding on God, I may become a man.

Honestly expressing yourself...it is very difficult to do. I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel like pretty cool...or I can make all kind of phony things, you see what I mean, blinded by it or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself...now that, my friend, is very hard to do.