Quotes About Inner

each soul possessed a garden with a serpent that whispered temptations.

In the hidden forest in my chest, the trees slowly lost their leaves.

Anger is effortless, Lucian. Kindness is hard.

My true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play . . there is an authentic 'I' within . . . a divine spark within the soul.

contemplate the fertility I hope for in my fifties and beyond—the regeneration of my creativity, the refinement of my spirituality, a new relationship with my body, the rediscovery of my daughter, indeed an inner culmination I cannot fully articulate to myself—I realize it cannot be plotted, orchestrated, controlled, and forced to bloom.

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

I didn't know how the rubble inside me could ever be put back together.

Most everyone has a private torment, some voracious badger that gnaws at them without ceasing

The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.

In a way," Great –Uncle Merry said. His eyes seemed dazed, unable to focus anywhere, but there was a twitching at the corners of his mouth. Somehow, without smiling, he looked happier than they had ever seen him look before. Jane thought, watching: it is a sad face usually, and that's why there is such a difference.

How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one's being.

However painful they were, I needed my dreams—the metaphor for my introspection—if I was ever to be at peace.

Non esiste un ingresso che immetta nella fortezza dell'anima.

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Mon rêve ressemble à une paix qui se bat pour sa tranquilité

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. — Josephine Hart

C'è un paesaggio interiore, una geografia dell'anima;ne cerchiamo gli elementi per tutta la vita.

Think of peace that so permeates our entire being, a peace that is closer than our hands and feet, closer even than our breathing.

A alma é feita de pequenos compartimentos, uns dentro dos outros, como uma boneca russa. Se continuarmos a abrir, a abrir, acabamos por encontrar a última das bonecas. E o seu rosto nunca é como o da boneca maior.

Must we think of the spirit as something divine that comes from without, that makes us divine? No, it is not that, to me it seems it is not that. The divine is in us, in our own intrinsic humanity, like a diamond in a mine. (La Corriente Infinita)

And life takes place inside us, with the eternal light of an ecstatic day which is going on somewhere else. It is a beautiful thing, something true and not yet real, beautiful!

En la soledad no se encuentra más que lo que a la soledad se lleva.