Quotes about Introspection

Most of us never examine the scripts handed to us by our past.

Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Few killer viruses are more difficult to discern than this one. On the surface all appears to be healthy and working, but it's not. All those hours and hours spent lost in one Christian book after another . . . all those many Christian responsibilities outside the home or going from one seminar to another . . . all that extra time in prayer and Bible study. . . . At times we use these Christian activities as an unconscious attempt to escape from pain. In

Part of that likeness is to feel.

human. To minimize

The degree to which you recognize and engage your own shadow is the degree to which you can free others to face theirs.

The late Dag Hammarskjöld, once the secretary general of the United Nations, suggested that we have become adept at exploring outer space, but we have not developed similar skills in exploring our own personal inner spaces. He wrote, "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward."4 Most of us feel much more equipped to manipulate objects, control situations, and "do" things than to take that very long journey inward. Painful Honesty

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

If we wish to be good, we must first believe that we are bad.

If we wish to be good, we must first believe that we are bad.

If we wish to be good, we must first believe that we are bad.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.