Quotes about Introspection

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.