Quotes About Inner

Stop that , I told my brain. Also, the wedding is tomorrow , said my brain. Get out of my head. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.

She fingered the strand of pearls at her neck. Inside each pearl was a little piece of grit. That was the true self of the pearl wasn't it? The beauty of the pearl was just the poor oyster trying to protect itself. From the grit. From the truth.

I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. He will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.

All good animals have secret lives.

the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light.

You can't change the music of your soul. —In Esquire, 1967

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

T is not faces, not color, not appearnces that matter. - Soren

We are good not in virtue of what we are but in virtue of what we are not, like darkness lit up by a light that enters into it from without. We are not light in ourselves but in virtue of having within us what is light in itself.

In der Ruhe liegt die Kraft"—"There is strength in calm

To silence the chatter in my mind so the quiet voice of my soul might be allowed to speak.

When both she and I had to deal with our respective demons, my sister saw the darkness as being within and part of herself, the family and the world. I, instead, saw it as a stranger; however lodged within my mind and soul the darkness became, it almost always seemed an outside force that was at war with my natural self.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.

aurem cordis, the ear of the heart.

Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us.