Quotes about Introspection

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

They are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in doing so are bringing themselves into deeper bondage. Now this is a situation which is really dangerous to Christian life, for inward knowledge will never be reached along the barren path of self-analysis.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

To Know the Dark To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

In solitude, we lose our loneliness.

When you have gone too far, as I think he did, the only mending is to come home.

He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.

The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.

Most people enter a library and don't hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all at once. Each ushering an invitation. The noise is raucous.

So, the water that would cleanse me was not water from my head—where I'd learned to rationalize my indifference. But water from my heart.