Quotes About Inward

I don't generally read reviews.

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

I'm not somebody who seeks attention.

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul. He soon discovered, however, what Muir and Thoreau already knew: An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.

It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.

Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the world, are within us.

Your "Gloria" lives within you.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that would answer to the name 'nowhere'.

Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

There is a great lamp within you, and the rays of that lamp are your life. In these little lamps outside, the wick burns oil and then burns out. The lamp within does not burn anything, but gives bliss.

Meditation takes us to the most peaceful place in entire universe, which is within ourselves.

Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind?s deformity.