Quotes about Self-reflection
Here is a community goal: to be able to identify one pattern of sin in our lives.
- Edward Welch
At this point, we know that worry and fear are more about us than about the things outside us.
- Edward Welch
My wants are what concern me. That's where the battle must be fought.
- Edward Welch
To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our sense of aloneness.
- Edward Welch
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
- Aldous Huxley
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley
Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.
- Mother Angelica
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
As any good therapist will tell you, you cannot heal what you do not acknowledge, and what you do not consciously acknowledge will remain in control of you from within, festering and destroying you and those around you.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!
- Fr. Richard Rohr