External World Quotes

88 quotes by 68 authors

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort… — Parker J. Palmer
Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew from the water,… — Lucian Blaga
And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that… — Alan Sokal
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which… — Morris Graves
Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving… — Anita Moorjani
If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the… — Eckhart Tolle
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. — Swami Vivekananda
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. — Oswald Chambers
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the… — William Torrey Harris
Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help… — Bernie Siegel
Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within. — Eckhart Tolle
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious… — Zhuangzi
Prayer doesnâ€™t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesnâ€™t actually affect… — David G. McAfee
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. — Swami Vivekananda
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to… — Timothy Leary
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside… — Johannes Kepler
The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world. — Susan L. Taylor
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,… — Alan Watts
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical… — Jean Piaget

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