Quotes About Inwardness

Prefiero ver las marcas reales de una naturaleza divina en mi propia alma que tener una visión del Cielo o un ángel enviado para decirme que mi nombre fue inscrito en el Libro de la Vida».

I've always been in my own world, even as a young girl. But I fell in love with music because it made me feel something that I can't explain.

Outwardness does to inwardness what light does to darkness: it chases it away.

And she doesn't want company. I can't fault her for that. We all must make our way alone before we're much good at making our way together.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

Me ha parecido que la exhibición de las máscaras estaba destinada a una sola persona, mi suegra, no porque ella frecuente el teatro Noh o porque sea capaz de apreciar la calidad artística de las máscaras, sino por esa expresión de absoluta serenidad que tienen, esa especie de mirada dirigida hacia dentro. Creo que ella debe de ser una de las últimas mujeres japonesas que todavían viven así, dirigiendo hacia dentro sus energías más profundas.

Laintal Ay, you also have an inwardness to your nature. I feel it. That inwardness will distress you, yet it gives you life, it is life.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Con el tiempo, la soledad se te mete dentro y no se va.

And it seemed to her that kisses, voices, tinkling spoons, laughter, the smell of crushed grass were somehow inside her.

Quality and consistency of conjecture are one good measure of the ambition and the inwardness of any literary biography. The biographer is master of the archive, but also and equally master of the subjunctive mood, of un-certainty, of non-factuality.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

I cannot now remember the exact sequence of events in those prehistoric years. That we cannot remember such things, that our memory, which is our self, is tiny, limited and fallible, is also one of those important things about us, like our inwardness and our reason. Indeed it is the very essence of both.

I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.

I don't bother with the outside myself. The last time I was in the open was three years ago. You see it once, you know and that's all there is to it.

Se había acostumbrado a su espacio, su silencio y su soledad; había concluido que le costaría mucho compartir su cama, su baño y su ropero y que ningún hombre podía satisfacer todas sus necesidades.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I don't need anybody here." "Sure you do. Who's going to answer the door while you're asleep in your casket?

A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the POWER OF THOUGHT of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

There is an otherness inside us We never touch, no matter how far down our hands reach. It is the past, with its good looks and Anytime, Anywhere ... Our prayers go out to it, our arms go out to it Year after year, But who can ever remember enough?

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.