introspection

Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.

It was an unfamiliar feeling, waking up with a place to go, a place I was actually beginning to comprehend and face without a sense of terror.More than that, I was even questioning the assumption that I was, in my bones, a scared and anxious and miserable person. It felt like the days were almost supernaturally good, that I could wake up without the usual wave of terror, that the days were admixed with some foreign substance dripping into them, some animating essence, like the dragonborn races of Endoria, dragonborn days. I felt like I'd stumbled on one of the open secrets of the world. Why hadn't I realized before that being a grown-up could be anything you wanted it to be?

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

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

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 in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone here and "the house and I resume old conversations".

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

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

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occa

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

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

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 you don't currently have in your possession. Being happy is easy, as long as you understand everything you need to be happy exist in you already. You just have to stop looking out and start looking in to find it.

The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection,and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain.

Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light.

The beauty of the past lies in-between the perpetual unhappiness of the future and of those who live it.