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Quotes About Inward

I like to findwhat's not foundat once, but lieswithin something of another naturein repose, distinct.
~ Denise Levertov
Words taken by lips, tongue, teeth, throat, down into body's caverns, to enter blood, bone, breath
~ Denise Levertov
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
~ Teresa of Avila
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
~ Ralph Cudworth
To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.
~ Martin Luther
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
~ Rumi
The person you spend the most time with affects you the most. And the person you spend the most time with is . . . you. Hence, what you tell yourself on a regular basis is muy importante.
~ Jen Sincero
Not all the beautiful things are seen, sometimes, they are felt.
~ Amenorhu kwaku
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
~ Anais Nin
No one can see the point where the longing is the most concentrated.
~ Riitta Jalonen
what if we could look within and see the source of our more troubling emotions and why they drive our behavior, often against our own wishes?
~ Robert Greene
The answer is to reverse this perspective: Stop fixating on what other people are saying and doing. Stop fixating on the money, the connections, the outward appearance of things. Instead look inward, focus on the smaller internal changes that lay the groundwork for a much larger change in fortune. It is the difference between grasping at an illusion and immersing yourself in reality. And reality is what will liberate and transform you.
~ Robert Greene
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outwards from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
They should not be turned in upon ourselves but upwards and outwards.
~ Robert Musil
The wind would come down a thousand miles and pound on the house and the sash would rattle and inside him something would be big and coiling slow and clotting till he would hold his breath and the blood would beat in his head with a hollow sound as though his head were a cave as big as the dark outside. He wouldn't have any name for what was big inside him. Maybe there isn't any name.
~ Robert Penn Warren
It was as if his whole life had suddenly lodged in his throat, a raw bite he could neither spit out nor swallow.
~ Larry McMurtry
so that the ship was falling toward the sun; and then he swung the nose inward and began to increase velocity
~ Larry Niven
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Shame, turned inside out, is rage.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The most dangerous enemy is the one within.
~ Aesop
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
~ Ajahn Chah