Self Observation Quotes

Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

Anthony de Mello

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

Shannon L. Alder

I love the storm and fear the calm.

Christina Queen of Sweden

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.

Margaret Kennedy

The key to developing your intuition is developing your self-observation skills.