I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path.
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment. It's just the idea that we're so wasteful. I think a lot of self - identity and inner - personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. . . . I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. . . . Go after the criminals and not the good people.
We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.
As you begin to heal the inner you, you alter your immune system.
To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.
Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.
Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.
True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.
External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.
Your inner knowing is your only true compass.