Quotes about Introspection

People who know who they are find it the easiest to know who they aren't.

The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God

It takes uncommon humility to carry both the dark and the light side of things. The only true perfection available to humans is the honest acceptance of our imperfection.

There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. The first task is to build a strong "container" or identity; the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. The first task we take for granted as the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well. The second task, I am told, is more encountered than sought; few arrive at it with much preplanning, purpose, or passion.

But it takes us much longer to discover "the task within the task," as I like to call it: what we are really doing when we are doing what we are doing.

But it takes us much longer to discover "the task within the task," as I like to call it: what we are really doing when we are doing what we are doing.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

To change your life, you must change the way you think. Behind everything you do is a thought. Every behavior is motivated by a belief, and every action is prompted by an attitude.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

days of spiritual dryness, doubt, and estrangement from God as "the dark night of the soul.

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.