The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

And here’s the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty...

Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within transcendent, spiritual meanings. Love becomes a...

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?…But where did that knowledge exist? Only...

Don’t call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

Shall I run back into the desert … and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the...

It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes,...

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat...

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves.

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 already. But to...

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

What is reading but silent conversation.

A person who is not getting job for long only needs the right opportunity to present himself through introduction ,but he who is in the same job for long requires the right and thorough introspection.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.

There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”[Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness

that’s exactly the good thing about the Injun life–you don’t have to stop and think about whether or not you’re ‘happy’–which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains’ apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around their order’s star and gemAnd growing ever darker, stony-faced,And these, their ladies, fragile, wan, but proppedHigh by their bodice, one hand...

During self-reflection, the realization came that revolution begins within.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about...

Introspection is not a privilege, you don’t have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

A person’s mind can find to see only his outer image in the mirror, his heart can see the inner part of his life’s beauty, but his soul can see the whole structure of his...

Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

Being happy is easy. Easy until you start believing that happiness is tied to a relationship, a job, your income, a product you buy, fame, a status, or any of a number of things that...

It’s a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones...

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev’ry friend—and ev’ry foe.

the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.” Thanks, Wikipedia!

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

The only journey is the one within.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”[The Minotaur]

Wisdom comes from introspection.

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That’s why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

Your character is a reflection of your thoughts.

The time for a person to instantly interact with his own soul, inspect his own mind and introspect with his own heart to identify his true quality of life is when too many people are...

I’ve learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important...

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you’ll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you’re looking for? You are the...