John Frusciante Quotes

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

The only journey is the one within.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

I want people to find their inner depth.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

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

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness.