Quotes about Introspection

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.

Whoever looks from inside knows that everything is new.

There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.

In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide to contemplative prayer. "Be willing to be blind, and give up all longing to know the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help." This 1912 edition was edited by Evelyn Underhill, and contains her introduction.