Inner Quotes

3120 quotes by 1724 authors

Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise… — Thomas Merton
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond… — Wilma Rudolph
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. — Emile Durkheim
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because… — Rajneesh
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it… — Rajneesh
In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and… — Rajneesh
Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new.… — Rajneesh
Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face,… — Rajneesh
If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that… — Rajneesh
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious;… — Rajneesh
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in… — Rajneesh
Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love… — Rajneesh
Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come… — Swami Nithyananda
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. — William L. Shirer
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. — Leo Tolstoy
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner… — Chin-Ning Chu
The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the… — Mark Tobey
I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it… — Lee Krasner
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being… — Caspar David Friedrich
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. — Ansel Adams

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