90 quotes found
“By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.”
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you alre...”
“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously...”
“Investigation in our own life is far more rewarding than investigating life of other's.”
“How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves.”
“Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.”
“Theres just something unsettling about studying your reflection. Its not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe its that when you gaze into your...”
“Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.”
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occa”
“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
“Periods of silent solitude spent in introspective reflecting are sacred and a source of great strength and comfort. We can learn from listening to the rhythms of nature and from appreciating the et...”
“I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone i...”
“Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.”
“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
“Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.”
“As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).”
