Quotes about Introspection

The real business of life, however, is to find out who you really are.

Of course he could still conjure up the old faces. But they didn't return on their own anymore. In order to see images of Channa or Suddhodana, he would ask to see them. "Learn to use your memories," he told the younger bikkhus. "Don't let them use you.

Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself.

Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.

No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you.

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.