Quotes About Inner

Over against his lost outward kingship he sets an inner kingship, makes his true kingship to retire to inner man, to soul and mind and "regal thoughts": You may my glories and my state depose, But not my briefs, still am I king of those. (IV.i.192ff)

Mais je ne pus sourire, mes nerfs serraient fort les muscles de mon visage comme la ficelle du rôti au four. – En haut à gauche

Esiste nel corpo la neve che non si squaglia in nessun ferragosto, rimane dentro il fiato come il mare dentro una conchiglia vuota.

It seemed too complicated, as if each one of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I assumed, was not.    

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.

Silence is the creation of space, a space that memory needs to use . . . an incubator. We're dealing here with dimensions, stretching our inner muscles, pushing aside any interference. We're dealing with numbers, but not counting. Silence demands the nature of night, even in full day, it demands shadows.

Beauty, it's an inner sense, and it makes us happy. It's not complicated, we need it.

Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.

When we separate our spiritual self from our life in the world, we create a kind of inner schism that leads to a sense of meaninglessness and isolation in our "secular" life.

Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else.

The inner world is as real as the outer world. One ought to be conscious of that… These two worlds are fed by each other, you must not neglect one at the expense of the other, must not deem one more important than the other.

Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.—2 Corinthians 4:16

The kingdom of self is heavily defended territory. Post-Eden

Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.

Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.

Not infrequently over the course of our marriage we'd talked about how each of us—or anyone, for that matter—needed to develop the inner strength necessary to face his or her own death. Not to pay lip service to the concept but really attempt to work at it. People neglected to do so at their peril.

Kierkegaard famously wrote "my sorrow is my castle." Unfortunately not all of us have as much space.

This lack of leisure and of intimacy is not a peripheral matter—nothing Socrates thinks can be expeditiously conveyed by public deliverance; it must always be slowly engendered in leisurely direct conversation with its accompanying inner dialogue (Theaetetus 172 d). Socrates' positive wisdom stated concisely in public would appear simply bizarre.

His voice was a muted roar and his face was still the mask of a beast. Gone was the kind, patient male who had carried her for miles, gone was the gentle soul who had healed her wounds so tenderly. In his place was a monster—at least that was how he looked to Sophie. "I

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.