Quotes About Inner work

I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don't know what work it is these states are performing within you?

I believe that love remains so strong and powerful in your memory because it was your first deep experience of solitariness and the first inner work that you undertook on your life.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

What's fun is that when you're no longer attached to being one separate part of it, you get to be part of all of it. At that point the all is known to you subjectively, and you are everywhere at once, because you are no longer pinned in a space-time locus by your separateness. Metaphysics tell me that, and physics tell me that. Everything I have experienced in all my inner work points to that.

The true work, it is done from within. The little grey cells—remember always the little grey cells, mon ami." -- Hercule Poirot

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.

Blessed are those who mourn…" This is the first step on the path of blessedness: sadness, discomfort, inner discontent, regret, misery, depression… mourning. If you are happy and carefree, why and how would you ever be motivated to do deep inner work – to heal, to evolve?

Lo que necesitas es un trabajo interior! El mundo exterior es el mundo de los efectos; es el resultado de los pensamientos. Sintoniza tus pensamientos y frecuencia con la felicidad. Irradia sentimientos de felicidad en tu interior y transmítelos al Universo con toda tu fuerza y experimentarás el cielo en la tierra.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

Each of us is part heroine or hero and part coward, part parent and part child, part saint and part thief. It is in learning to identify these great archetypal motifs within ourselves, learning to honor each one as a legitimate human trait, learning to live out the energy of each in a constructive way, that we make inner work a great odyssey of the spirit.

To honor and accept one's own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime.

The way we do that is to change the attitudes and beliefs within us that tell us that we are not Lovable.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

The best methods are those which help the life energy to resume its inner work of healing

The more you recover your authentic self, the more your destiny will unfold before your eyes. Just keep doing your inner work - that's the most essential thing.

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Self-knowledge and self-examination. Parker Palmer makes this very sobering statement about leadership: "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him/herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

The inner work of the abductees, by enabling them to acknowledge their experiences, has allowed some of them to appreciate the importance of the gifts they have to offer.

You save the world by concentrating on your own forgiveness lessons.

The moral of the story is that seeking truth, rather than fear of pain or the desire for happiness, is the correct orientation toward inner work, since seeking happiness makes you its prisoner just as surely as does pain.