Quotes about Introspection

It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

Addicts and alcoholics will tell you that their recovery began when they woke up in pitiful and degraded enough shape to take Step Zero, which is: Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã…"This shit has got to stop.

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, Here's who I am, and that is where most improvement has to begin.

But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, Here's who I am, and that is where most improvement has to begin.

Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass—seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering hope to no one.

Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time.

One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.

The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise

They taught me to pay attention, but not so much attention to my tiny princess mind.

I felt that in my strange new friends and in certain new books, I was meeting my other half. Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.) I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.