If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.
There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality. . . . Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world. . . If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.
No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.
Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear.
Inner beauty is for amateurs.
I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.
Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.
The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an inner oneness and sense of unity with them represents a fundamental revolution in the way we view and live our lives. Therefore, discriminating against another person is the same as discriminating against oneself. When we hurt another, we are hurting ourselves. And when we respect others, we respect and elevate our own lives as well.
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism. " Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.
It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.
Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization, and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature. To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.