A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that… — Ginette Paris Copy Share Image
The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the… — Basil Pennington Copy Share Image
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“This is a pale reflection of a deeper truth: that the One who created us holds us with a constancy that does… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things,… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Thus, on the one hand, Spenser's thought is steeped in sensuous detail, so that for him there is no really abstract thinking;… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“You should observe, and have observed, in which direction God urges you most of all to go, for, as St. Paul says,… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“for Extraverts, the inner world consists of private reactions to collective assumptions, along with mental and emotional content that can’t be accommodated… — Lenore Thomson Copy Share Image
Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
“People are like wildflowers—drain their souls, and nothing blooms. Nurture them, and they become a garden where the world gathers its sweetness.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of… — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration… — Barbara Klein Moss Copy Share Image
“This deeper gratitude — gratitude for what was constant when it was not felt — is one of the most spiritually mature… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
“When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore,… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Why is history uncontested here? There is no sight of that dispute over words, that battle over versions of stories that marks… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. — Charles Horton Cooley 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 trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned… — david guterson Copy Share Image
We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer,… — Asher Peres Copy Share Image
All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The women's choice of footwear doesn't speak for their most important inner life, but rather it tells a story - this is… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
