Quotes About Inner work

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do 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.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

The problem with Christianity is, they think everything is about outside forces, good and evil. There's not a lot of inner work encouraged. -Rolling Stone 1998

Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

It's even difficult to hear that what we reject out there is what we reject in ourselves, and what we reject in ourselves is what we are going to reject out there.

Once you start that important spiritual housekeeping work, your Imposters will surely protest. Your Victim Imposter might whine: I don't wanna do the hard work. Don't make me! Your Egotist Imposter might lament: I already know that I can do the hard work, ergo I don't need to do it. I don't have to prove anything to anyone!

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Until you do the inner work of learning how to see with "your eyes and your heart open," as Kabat-Zinn puts it, deep problems will persist.

Sufis describe the heart as a mirror which the wayfarer polishes and polishes with aspiration and inner work, until no imperfection remains. Then the mirror of the heart can reflect the true light of the Beloved.

Trying to change how we actually feel by ordering ourselves to do so is a strategy that goes nowhere, fast.

Yoga is an inner experience - a workIN within a workOUT.

When something keeps happening over and over again, consider it a sign that it needs to be dealt with. It's not always a negative message. Sometimes, in fact, it's just a gentle reminder from the universe that you've got some work to do!

Most times we are so focused on what we need to change on the outside that we forget the inside needs the most work.

The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy.

If you don't work on yourself, then much of your politics is merely projections. We have to walk our talk and do the inner work that allows the outer work to be authentic and also effective.

Después de todo, generalmente es en la infancia cuando aprendemos qué partes de nosotros son aceptables y cuáles no, y, por lo tanto, es el momento de comenzar a construir nuestra sombra y dar forma a nuestra personalidad consciente. Hacer el «trabajo del niño interior» suena un poco por ahí, pero en realidad no es tan distinto de reconocer y acoger delicadamente el aspecto de la sombra.

Of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.

It is true that philosophy is quite aware of the Buddhistic picture of life, of the sorrows and sicknesses which drag him down at times. That is why it makes equanimity a leading item of the inner work upon himself, why it becomes so necessary. But it is also true that moments, moods, and glimpses are also possible when there is uplift, and he can confirm for himself that the human link with the higher power is a very real thing.