Quotes About Inner

Today religion appeals almost solely to the needs of the private sphere—needs for personal meaning, social bonding, family sup-port, emotional nurturing, practical living, and so on. In this climate, almost inevitably, churches come to speak the language of psychological needs, focusing primarily on the therapeutic functions of religion. Whereas religion used to be connected to group identity and a sense of belonging, it is now almost solely a search for an authentic inner life.

A lesser known Stoic writer, Hierocles, visualizes a series of extended, concentric circles with the self at the center. "To be at home" in the world requires striving to bring the outermost circles toward the center.

a kind of wonder at the secret chamber at the center of every human heart whose contents are unguessable from the outside.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

uncovering hidden unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment in our heart is also the door to freedom.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

The individual's inner speech and actions attract the conditions of his life.

Sleep is the time when the male or conscious mind turns from the world of sense to seek its lover or subconscious self.

The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire.

These inner movements not only produce corresponding outer movements: this is the law which operates beneath all physical appearances. He who practices these exercises of bilocation will develop unusual powers of concentration and quiescence and will inevitably achieve waking consciousness on the inner and dimensionally larger world.

The journey is in yourself. You travel along the highways of the inner world. Without inner movement it is impossible to bring forth anything. Inner action is introverted sensation. If you will construct mentally a drama which implies that you have realised your objective, then close your eyes and drop your thoughts inward, centering your imagination all the while in the predetermined action and partake in that action, you will become a self-determined being.

The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies that our ideal is realized, and inwardly affirm it over and over and over again until we are inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it. Hold fast to your noble inner convictions or "conversations.

His concept of himself is the cause of all the circumstances of his life. All changes must first come from within himself; and if he does not change on the outside it is because he has not changed within.

No es el mundo - eso cambia automáticamente- si yo, en una pequeña forma, cambio dentro de mí.

The great secret of success is a controlled inner conversation from premises of fulfilled desire. The only price you pay for success is the giving up of your former conversation – which belongs to the Old Man, the unsuccessful man.

The Real Man, the Imaginative Man, has invested the outer world with all its properties. The apparent reality of the outer world which is so hard to dissolve is only proof of the absolute reality of the inner world of his own imagination.

Inner action orders all things according to the nature of itself. Try and see whether a desirable ideal once formulated is possible, for only by this process of experiment can you realise your potentialities. It is this that this creative principle is being realised. So the clue to purposive living is to centre your imagination in the action and feeling of fulfilled desire with such awareness, such sensitiveness, that you initiate and experience movement upon the inner world.

Ideas only act if they are felt, if they awaken inner movement. Inner movement is conditioned by self-motivation, outer movement by compulsion.

Spread your wealth within yourself by relaxing, and see everything else on the outside then transform.