Quotes about Introspection

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Francis's all-night prayer, "Who are you, O God, and who am I?" is probably a perfect prayer, because it is the most honest prayer we can offer.

Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

It is the struggle with darkness and grief that educates the male soul.

We mend and renew the world by strengthening inside ourselves what we seek outside ourselves, and not by demanding it of others or trying to force it on others.

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.