Quotes about Introspection

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is awareness of what we are, of what our true situation really is.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

Angry and resentful people enjoy judging other people's problems because it makes them feel better about their own issues.

Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously.

In every other age and class man is held responsible for his reading, and not reading responsible for man. The books a man or woman reads are less the making of character than the expression of it.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and others. When he had no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.