The pseudo-conscience. . . demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.
If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.
Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give perspectives on things we never knew you could have. They bring joy. They explore inner human emotion, and at its best, the full dynamic range of that emotion.
[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it was wearing. You know, where the parts were wearing out. Now, that's inner visualization and a half! And that was the secret of why he did so many inventions.
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. --Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle.
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.
Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?
Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.
We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
Your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.
The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul. ”• “Play is the highest level of child development. . . It gives. . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world. . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life. ”• “Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.
We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.