Quotes About Inwardness

Your eyes blind everything, even the night, your name written inside me.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

I don't like collaborating too much.

I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest.

to live well you must live unseen

God for us, God alongside us, God within us.

Developments in high technology reflect an ancient model for craftsmanship, but the reality on the ground is that people who aspire to be good craftsmen are depressed, ignored, or misunderstood by social institutions. These ills are complicated because few institutions set out to produce unhappy workers. People seek refuge in inwardness when material engagement proves empty; mental anticipation is privileged above concrete encounter; standards of quality in work separate design from execution.

turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils

Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

learning how to disappear is the best way I've found to make my true self visible to myself and others.

Everything I think's private. I don't want the dead or telepaths to hear my mind.

and I who live in the basement one level down from the world

What poor substitutes for real diversity are the wild rainbows of dyed hair and other external differences that tell the observer nothing about what is inside.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart "abiding" in Christ.

One thing was certain, she was through depending on others--others who didn't care, who just wanted to keep out of trouble.

Oceans of clouds in my chest.

I'm so happy- so happy...I'm full- you understand: to the brim. And so- I walk about and hear nothing of what's around mem because I'm always listening within, inside myself...

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Self absorption is anti-seductive; it is a sign of insecurity.