Quotes about Introspection
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
— Thomas Merton
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
— Thomas Merton
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
— Catherine Marshall
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
— James Allen
Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
— Bill Hybels
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.
— Henri Nouwen
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
— Marianne Williamson
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
— Henri Nouwen
Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.
— Deepak Chopra
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Your inner world creates your outer world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo