Quotes about Introspection

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.

We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal.

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

The freedom to think involves the courage to stumble upon our demons.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?