Quotes About Inner

The word Christ uses for "life" is the word psyche—the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life—those are the things that will actually destroy us.

And so a man's heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places.

The beauty of a woman is first a soulful beauty. And yes, as we live it out, own it, inhabit our beauty, we do become more lovely. More alluring. As the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, "Self flashes off frame and face." Our true self becomes reflected in our appearance. But it flows from the inside

To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.

The passage is not about trying to save your skin by ducking martyrdom or something like that. The word Christ uses for "life" is the word psyche—the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life—those are the things that will actually destroy us.

She might be the daughter of a king or a common servant girl, but we know she is a princess at heart. She is young with a youth that seems eternal. Her flowing hair, her deep eyes, her luscious lips, her sculpted figure - she makes the rose blush for shame; the sun is pale compared to her light. Her heart is golden, her love as true as an arrow.

To be clear, I am not listening for an audible voice, as I would if you and I were talking. I am listening for his gentle voice within, for that is where Jesus dwells—within our very hearts (Eph. 3:17).

A man's heart reflects the man . . . Proverbs 27:19

the outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.

The human heart is village sized.

That's the great dead thing in him.

The inner is not a brute reality which can be mapped out by psychologists, but a tangle of concepts relating the inner to the outer which lies at the heart of human understanding.

where our desires come from; that is a dark, winding road.

Many of Juan Diego's demons had been his childhood companions-he knew them so well, they were as familiar as friends.

What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head.

You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).

A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.