Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
“To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse—that’s quite… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“I changed into a quiet girl, with an inner life that burned with such ferocity that I had no words to express… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers… — Don Delillo Copy Share Image
Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
“A woman carries her inner life—lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her—while nourishing another’s… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia acquaintance of yours, sweeping streets… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“How much she wanted it - that people should look pleased as she came in, Clarissa thought and turned and walked back… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion orclosing of the TV image,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Mum: I loved watching you work on it because you were concentrating so hard and it looked like you were enjoying it.… — Laura Markham Copy Share Image
It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save… — William James Copy Share Image
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
“Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think my son is a bit young for me to be away. I really feel like during the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“The world conforms people to a certain way of thinking and living through external influences such as advertising and fashion. But believers… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
