Quotes About Inner self

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

Why?"He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.

Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt.

Everyone has a divine beauty. Beware, underneath there may be a hidden diabolical ego.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

Her cheeriness grates as always, but with Jennifer he senses that it is a true reflection of her inner self and not some act, and that stops him from vomiting his disdain onto her scarf. One doesn't shout at a lame girl for her limp, or upbraid a blind man for his lack of sight. She is entitled to her disability.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

The secret place where we encounter God in a truly transformational way is in our inner self. Prayer is meeting God in the darkness and solitude of that secret place. Nothing less than such an encounter with God in the depths of our soul will provide access to the deep knowing of both God and self that is our true home.

We can ask ourselves each day, how has my "inner person" been given the opportunity to speak and act today?

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.