Quotes about Introspection

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

I know my limitations as an actor.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

I'm perpetually lonely.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.