Quotes About Inner

I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction, a pride in a heritage of greatness. To marry a woman would be an inadmissible rejection of my identity.

The awakened state of enlightenment is your own awareness that is naturally awake. (p. 102)

Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.

Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within.

For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words. — Opus paramirum , I:ix

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

When I forget my own inner multiplicity and my own long and continuing journey toward selfhood, my expectations of students become excessive and unreal. If I can remember the inner pluralism of my own soul and the slow pace of my own self-emergence, I will be better able to serve the pluralism among my students at the pace of their young lives.

Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without "the light that is within me" becoming dark.

But how can the devil be stopped when he lives inside you?

her natural State of Personal Power.

Everything you've longed for "out there" is already within you. The path to authenticity travels through your own heart, mind, body, and spirit.

She had come to an inner strength that held her up. When things were so bad that they couldn't be any worse, something came to you—some courage, some control.

The way of soul, we notice, is downward rather than the upward flight of the mystic.

For there are devils in the deep, but worst are the ones we make.

No one can provide the heart it's own peace; you have to find it yourself.

It does not matter what you think, the monster said, because you mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.

For there are devils in the deep but worse are the ones we make.

Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.

Luego toqué la canción que se esconde en el centro de mí. Esa música sin letra que recorre los rincones secretos de mi corazón. La toqué con cuidado, desgranando las notas lenta y suvamente en el oscuro silencio nocturno. Me gustaría poder decir que es una canción alegre, que es dulce y animada, pero no lo es.