It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.
To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.
I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek.
Outer order contributes to inner calm.
I would be a president for all of the people, African-Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities. Hillary Clinton's been talking about it for years. As usual, she talks about it, nothing happens. She doesn't get it done.
Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.
Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.
A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.
The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -
Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.
Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.
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 to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.
When it's cold and raining,you are more beautiful. And the snow brings meeven closer to your lipsThe inner secret, that which was never born,you are that freshness, and I am with you now. I can't explain the goings,or the comings. You enter suddenly,and I am nowhere again. Inside the majesty
Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.