I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an… — Robert Svoboda 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
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
“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
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent… — William James Copy Share Image
we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord,… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll… — Aimee Liu Copy Share Image
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
