Quotes About Internal

The key to true freedom is not just following whatever desires we happen to have, but cultivating the right desires. This means that the internal movement of the will is not a sufficient condition for freedom; we must consider the end toward which the will is moved.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle is an internal resistance or no to life as it is: we regret the past, worry about the future, and reject our present circumstances. The key to staying in the zone is to let go of this internal resistance and accept the past, trust the future, and embrace the present, just as they are. The key, in other words, is to say yes to life.

At the higher stages of energy continuation, one will find his movements are now being governed by the movement of his internal energy.

I don't really know why I'm crying. I can't explain it myself, much less stop it.

And Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away

As long as you hold onto wanting something from the outside, you will be dissatisfied because there is a part of you that you are still not totally owning. . . . How can you be complete and fulfilled if you believe that you cannot own this part [of yourself ] until somebody else does something? . . . If it is conditional, it is not totally yours. —A. H. ALMAAS

Actually, the biggest danger to the Christian church does not come from the persecution without, but from heresy within.

It's a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles—inside me and outside me—and the point where they overlap is where my experience of consciousness is located.

Out of the quiet emerges the sheer incarnational presence of the world, a presence that seems to demand a moving internal symmetry in the one breathing and listening equal to its own breathing, listening elemental powers.

If you hide your problems and never let yourself get help from yourself and others, those problems will always be lurking inside of you beneath the surface.

Unified thinking without borders in apparent dimensions can only be strengthened when focused collectively 'internally'.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

There is a tendency to treat them as though they were acting, not from the inside, but from the outside, so that it may be possible to bring the shield against stimuli into operation as a means of defence against them.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Luca wonders what it would feel like to blow up like that. But for now he remains undetonated, his horrors sealed tightly inside, his pin fixed snugly in place.

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that's what it is, one after the other.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

the Upanishads suggest that so-called chaos may have an actual divine function, even if you personally can't recognize it right now: The best we can do, then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally-no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

Me asusta un poco, pero también me deja asombrada. No sé qué hacer, así que tengo un diálogo interno con la energía. Le digo: «Creo en ti» y me responde magnificándose, aumentando de volumen.