Quotes About Inner

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.

It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain of humor. But some patients at the beginning of analysis make incessant jokes about themselves, or exaggerate their difficulties in so dramatic a way that they will appear funny, while they are at the same time absurdly sensitive to any criticism. In these instances humor is used to take the sting out of an otherwise unbearable shame.

The central inner conflict is one between the constructive forces of the real self and the obstructive forces of the pride system, between healthy growth and the drive to prove in actuality the perfection of the idealized self.

Hatred can be pushed aside, but it will always whisper in your ear.

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

Martin] Luther, we grant, overcame bondage out of devotion by replacing it by bondage out of conviction. He shattered faith in authority because he restored the authority of faith. He turned priests into laymen because he turned laymen into priests. He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

For every man, peace of soul is precious.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.