Inward Quotes

476 Inward quotes by 347 unique authors

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not… — Joseph Campbell
Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward. — Jacques Lusseyran
Words . . . present a picture of the inward man. — John Mott
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this… — Flannery O'Connor
Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as… — King James I
To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the… — Sivananda
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous… — Ernest Holmes
You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the… — Ken Wilber
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 of human experience. — Gary Zukav
‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time. — Terence McKenna
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is… — George Eliot
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. — William Wordsworth
His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright. — William Wordsworth
The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by… — William Penn
...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside… — Elias Hicks
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had… — Victor Hugo
I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the… — Joseph Campbell
As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but… — John Mulaney
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail. — Adrienne Rich
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,… — Roy Lichtenstein
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker… — Hannah More
If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied… — Charles Spurgeon
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow… — Jim Holt

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