You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly. . . what he is saying inwardly.
My father was very outwardly religious.
It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr. ). Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr. ) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr. ) in that way (. . . . in French "par là", Fr. ) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.
Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.
God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.
Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.
Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.
Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.
Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses
I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.
The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.
The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.
RELIGION is one's opinion and belief in some ethical truth. To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be a believer of Mohammed is to be a Mohammedan but there are so many religions that every man seems to be a religion unto himself. No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.
Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task
No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.
