Quotes About Inner work

In truth, always needing to stay immediate by removing what is no longer real is the working inner definition of sacrifice---giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

Meditation is the inner work of self-reflection and self-transformation through mental, physical, and emotional discipline.

Esoteric things progress not according to time, but by activity, they can be slow or quick, depending upon the efforts made.

The Zen master Seng-Ts'an was fond of saying "If you work on your mind with your mind, how can you avoid great confusion?

Karl enrolled in one of our Esalen month-long seminars after he had done some inner work in a renegade primal therapy group in Canada. It was one of the groups of people who had left the institute of primal therapy

meditate on how each of your particular faults is a direct hindrance to the unfoldment of love.

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need do only inner work Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself.… The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings. —CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER, The Timeless Way of Building

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need do only inner work . . . that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself. . . . The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings. —Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building

So we see man's work is ever with himself.

I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn't matter if you're going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

The Work is about making personality passive, a servant rather than a master.

The work we have to do is with ourselves ,If we're ever going to be at peace with each other.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

was to happen. We also claimed His protection from demonic attack for all of us and for our families. Our prayer apparently roused a demon called Anger. As I tried to question Sue concerning her problems, Anger insisted on butting into our conversation. He seemed to be at about level 5 or 6 on our scale, so he had the strength to interfere. If the demon had not interrupted us, I would have paid no attention to him until the inner work had been done, even though, on the basis of what

Make it fun—make it count—and teach your kids through your example that nourishing our spirit and doing our inner work makes life a whole lot brighter for everyone.

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

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

Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.