If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God… — Marian Wright Edelman 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
Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In… — Gene Edwards Copy Share Image
God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined… — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
