Quotes about Introspection

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

We become what we are willing to see.

Genuine humility is based on a realistic self-appraisal and a healthy feeling of self-worth.

A.A. is the only group I know that is willing and honest enough to just tell people up front, "You are damn selfish!" Or, "Until you get beyond your massive narcissism you are never going to grow up.

Organized religion is an accountability system that holds your feet to the fire long enough to know what the issues really are, who God might just be, and what your own limitations might also be.

One of the great surprises is that humans come to full consciousness precisely by shadowboxing, facing their own contradictions, and making friends with their own mistakes and failings. People who have had no inner struggles are invariably both superficial and uninteresting.

We cannot heal what we do not first acknowledge.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Am I willing to walk into the wilds of my interior life without knowing what I'll find?

Because far too many religious folks do not seriously pursue this "reverence humming within them," they do not recognize

Unless religion leads us on a path to both depth and honesty, much religion is actually quite dangerous to the soul and to society.

It is often when the ego is most deconstructed that we can hear things anew and begin some honest reconstruction, even if it is only half heard and halfhearted.