Quotes About Inner

Meditation is listening to the Divine within.

When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without.

A truncated spirituality, intent mainly upon finding an inner connection to the self, does not truly represent the mind of Christ.

Con este consuelo me metí en la cama y traté de dormirme repitiendo para mis adentros la hora en que quería despertarme, pues sé que el subconsciente, además de desvirtuar nuestra infancia, tergiversar nuestros afectos, recordarnos lo que ansiamos olvidar, revelarnos nuestra abyecta condición y destrozarnos, en suma, la vida, cuando se le antoja y a modo de compensación, hace las veces de despertador.

Creí entender que a ese hombre ninguna verdad podía lastimarlo, simplemente porque no le quedaba ningún retazo ileso en el alma como para que pudiera llagársele

Nature is not only what is visible to the eye—it also shows the inner images of the soul—the images on the reverse side of the eyes.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

I had discovered that I am the kind of person who cannot live comfortably, tolerably, on all-flat terrain. For the sake of inner equilibrium there has to be at least one mountain range on at least one of the four quarters of my horizon-and not more than a day's walk away.

I put myself away. I came up with the great vanishing system, in which I could retreat so deep within myself that, though I might still appear the same creature, actually I was very different. I thrust all thoughts and feelings into the depths of me, where they were safe, but in an outward way I became something like an automation.

the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Hit's a lot worse to be soul-hungry than to be body-hungry.

Spirituality is... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Love not me for comely grace,For my pleasing eye or face,Nor for any outward part,No, nor for a constant heart.

Jesus saith, Ye ask who are those that draw us to the kingdom, if the kingdom is in Heaven?… The fowls of the air, and all beasts that are under the earth or upon the earth, and the fishes of the sea, these are they which draw you, and the kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside.

For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.

Wind over lake: the image of Inner Truth.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

Under all those smiles, jokes and laughs is a whole different person...

True beauty isn't in the eye of the another, but the one looking into the mirror.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.