Inner Dialogue Quotes

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

The most important thing of all is that God is talking to me.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

… one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

I always have these little internal monologues. You'll get used to them.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.

I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that.

'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'

I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

Hopefully, the stuff that is way too personal that I record and keep - people won't hear it because it's way too personal.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.