Quotes about Introspection

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will — that is what we are or will soon become.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.