Inner World Quotes - Page 3

• Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

  Frederick Lenz

  Illumination, World, Matter

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• When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Buddhist, Growing Up

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• The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not a doing; it is nondoing. It is not action; it is inaction. And it seems difficult because everybody from the very beginning is told, `Do something; don`t just go on sitting there! Something is always better than nothing.` In the inner world these are not the laws. Nothing is better than everything.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Law, Relaxation

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• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Ideas, Mind

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Self, Perception

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• For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Discovery, Relaxation

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.41, Penguin Books India

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• And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major part. Man has five senses, eighty per cent is taken away by the eyes and only twenty per cent is left for the other four senses. They are very poor people, those four. Eyes are very rich, they have monopolised the whole thing; hence it is good - eighty per cent energy is saved - and that can be immediately used for witnessing, for seeing your inner world. hence in the East we call a person who is blind 'pragyanshakshu' - this word is untranslatable.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Eye, Men

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• Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life. It's that simple.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Reflection, Simple

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 25, 2014

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• Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is unnecessary in the inner world. You remove all that clutter, all the rubbish you are full of. Meditation means emptying yourself of all that the society has put inside you so that you can have a clean, clear vision, so that you can have a mirror-like quality.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Mirrors, Dust

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• Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 29, 2013

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• Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Inspiration, Silence

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment”, Harmony

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• The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist objectively, but their true mode of existence is like a dream: apparent yet insubstantial.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Dream, Reality, World

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• From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Interesting, Childhood, Understanding

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• This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it.

  Israel Regardie

  Spiritual, Order, Dawn

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• I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person.
  So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

  Carl Rogers

  Lying, Feelings, Important

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• Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Attitude, Empathy

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Struggle, Men, Fire

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1949.

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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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• If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond the bounds of attention, there are things in the universe, in the universes of mind, in the inner worlds, it's best sometimes not to deal with unless you're very, very far along.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Mean, Buddhism

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• The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychology, World, Facts

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

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• I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

  Joe Bradley

  Thinking, Space, Entering

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Weather, Feelings, Who We Are

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Growing Up, Cities

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• And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

  Theodore Roethke

  Long, Mind, Substance

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.28, Anchor

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