Inner Life Quotes - Page 2

• Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Admitting, Lives Of Others

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Ignorance, Discovery

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to our own inner world. Without insight into our internal cycles of pleasure and pain, desires and fears, there is a strong sense of being removed, apart or disconnected. When we do have an understanding of our inner lives, it provides an intuitive opening, even without words, to the ties that exist between ourselves and others.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Strong, Pain, Ties

  Sharon Salzberg (2012). “The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion”, p.32, Sounds True

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• Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

  Heinz Kohut

  Thinking, Empathy, Capacity

  Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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• You must develop a rich inner life to enjoy life altogether.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Enjoy Life, Rich, Enjoy

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• Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.

  John D. Caputo

  Order, Kingdoms, Firsts

  John D. Caputo (2014). “How To Read Kierkegaard”, p.14, Granta Books

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• The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Meditation, Purpose, Consciousness

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 13, 1973.

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• What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  What If, Students, Rich

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (1993). “The Peaceable Classroom”, Boynton/Cook

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• If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.

  Robin Sharma

  Moving, Reflection, Quality

  Source: www.pickthebrain.com

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• An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Enemy, Passing Away

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• The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Needs, Entering

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.38, Image

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• Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Discipline, Missing, Today

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• Inner life is Divine.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Life Is, Divine

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• If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!

  James Merrick

  Titles, Fashionable, Known

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• Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Aggravation, Sacred

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Beautiful, Work, Heart

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• There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

  William James

  Educational, Philosophy, Feelings

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.20, Nuvision Pubns

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• 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.

  Asher Peres

  Book, Intellectual, Lasts

  "Quantum theory: concepts and methods" by Asher Peres, Springer, (p. 26-27), 1995.

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• To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.

  Violette Leduc

  Memories, Butterfly, Thinking

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Grief, Self

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.194, Profile Books

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• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Helping Others, Self

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• We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

  William James

  Ambition, Order, Political

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Stars, Acting, Actors

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your art - the foundation is the same: the claiming of yourself as an artist/writer and the strengthening of your writing voice through practice, study, and helpful response from other writers.

  Pat Schneider

  Art, Communication, Healing

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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• One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Order, Two

  "Les misérables".

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