Quotes about Introspection

If someone walks by or speaks to you, you may find that your power of attentiveness extends to this person as well. Even if you do not know him, you may be able to see his soul too, the one he thinks he has so carefully covered up. There is something he is working on in his life, the same way you are working on something. Can you see it in his face? You are related, even if you do not know each other's names.

Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.

I've gone to look for myself. If i should return before I get back, keep me here

God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

I can only speak to myself.

I can only speak to myself. (Bush, 2005).

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.