Jacques Benigne Bossuet Quotes

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

Tell me who I am. (29)

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

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

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.