Eudora Welty Quotes

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts that are native to you. So that probably winds up in your characters.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.