“Is it not important to you to know whether you are a mere body, or something else? Or, maybe nothing at all? Don't you see that all your problems are your body's problems--food, clothing, shelter, family, friends, name, fame, security, survival--all these lose their meaning the moment you realize that you may not be a mere body. ”

—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Introspection

MGMT

MGMT—  Introspection 

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“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”

—Terence Mckenna

“lies were better than the silence that abounded nice comfortable lies like         I need you or         Gosh you look pretty this morning the lies that make the lie of life real or lies that make real life livable she lived on the edge of an emotional abyss or perhaps she lived in the well of a void there were always things she wanted like arms to hold her eyes that understood a friend to relax with someone to touch always         someone to touch her life was a puzzle broken into a hundred thousand little pieces she didn’t mind being emotionally disheveled she was forever fascinated by putting the pieces together         though most times the center was empty”

—Nikki Giovanni

“Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.”

—Joseph Campbell

“Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing. ”

—Osho

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” ”

—Albert Camus

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

—Rumi
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