Quotes about Self-reflection

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

God is in you. GOD. IS. IN. YOU. There is nowhere to go, nothing to fill up, nothing to seek, there is only going inside

Where you hadn't yet dealt with your shadows, you manifested shadowy situations. Broken parts of you encountered broken parts of others.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to be doesn't stand a chance.

Spiritual law is unalterable: if we focus on the guilt in others, we'll see guilt in ourselves; if we focus on the innocence in others, we'll feel the innocence within ourselves. Perception is a choice.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.