Quotes About Soul-searching

I keep that photo to remind me to be forgiving and to look into people's souls with an open mind. It isn't the initial judgment that matters, Mike. It's the last one that counts.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

What was I? The question again recurred, to be answered only with groans.

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

It was doubtless true," she later wrote "that I was 'Weary of myself and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it—frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself. Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves." ~ Richard Rohr

Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.

I travel by myself a lot. Most of the time I'm by myself.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

The cod collapse was an ecological and economic catastrophe that cost forty thousand jobs and gutted entire communities. A disaster of these proportions in Ontario would have been cosidered a national trauma. But there was no soul-searching about the cod. No heads rolled. There was no Royal Commission.

If you # love love, look for yourself.

They were embarking on a journey into the darkness inside themselves.

Here's another test. Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? If

This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source.

Hay un momento en la vida en que debemos buscar dentro de nosotros para decidir.

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Even to yourself.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Nevertheless, faithfully interrogate your own souls, whether ye have not been unduly puffed up by your integrity, and continence, and chastity; and whether ye have not been so desirous of the human praise that is accorded to these virtues, that ye have envied some who possessed them.