Quotes About External

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

When you perceive through your senses, the object may be, of the outside world, but you see the object, inside of you, in your awareness field.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

OUR MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE in life, according to Epictetus, is whether to concern ourselves with things external to us or things internal. Most people choose the former because they think harms and benefits come from outside themselves.

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMATION Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. The universe exists. Therefore, the explanation of the universe's existence is God. Logically speaking, this is

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

what factors external to the music itself can make it resonate for us. Is there a bar near the stage? Can you put it in your pocket? Do girls like it? Is it affordable?

Spiritual disciplines should always be means to spiritual ends, never ends in themselves. They are places of meeting God that do not have value in and of themselves. To treat them as if they did is to develop a spirituality that is external, self-energized and legalistic. Genuine Christian spirituality places the priority on inner transformation, not outward routines.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.