425 Quotes About Introspection

At some point in life every person encounters haunting feelings of loneliness, because the feeling of being alone and withdrawing deeply into the inner self is part of the human condition. A person might choose to countenance or even cultivate their loneliness and turn the poignant hours of unerring solitude into poetry of their soul.

But you might stumble upon yourself one day. You might suddenly stop short and see yourself in a completely new light.

If we don’t look within nature, we cannot look within ourselves. If we cannot admire the clear and sweet world, we cannot appreciate our clear and sweet selves… as the soul cannot flow in without a source.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The whole world was out there, but I was in my mother's arms, and I didn't know it yet.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Learn to observe your emotions without needing to act or distract yourself from them. Within that stillness your truest most vulnerable thoughts will arise and it is these thoughts that will show you where your healing work must begin.

As we more easily get in touch with others, we seem to lose touch with ourselves. We can’t solve all of our problems through others; sometimes, we have to look within, rearrange, and reconsider things from a renewed perspective.