Quotes about Introspection

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.

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.