Outer Worlds Quotes

• Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

  Ajahn Chah

  Peace, Heart, Turtles

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• I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

  Richard Bode

  Inner Peace, Wealth, Moments

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Doom And Gloom, People, Perspective

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• A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Psychosis, Ego, Narcissistic

  Sigmund Freud (1950). “Collected Papers ...”

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• Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

  Rajneesh

  Humanity, Half, World

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• When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Clouds, Air, Wind

  Shunryu Suzuki (2018). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice”, p.13, House of Majied Publications via PublishDrive

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• My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

  Anna Kavan

  Confused, Ideas, Mind

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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• Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Unhappy, World

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 30, 2012

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• Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Journey, True Joy, Profound

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• What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Fasting, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse”

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• We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

  John D. MacDonald

  Imagination, World, Environment

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• When you're attuned to Spirit, there is nothing in the outer world that matters.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Attitude, World, Matter

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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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• Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Independent, Home, Self

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1860). “Gleanings”, p.208

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• For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.

  Walter Lippmann

  Confusion, Culture, Blooming

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

  Alfred Noyes

  Book, Eye, Soul

  Alfred Noyes (1910). “The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems”

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• When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Talking, Giving

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.

  Thomas Berry

  World, Humans, Happens

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.200, Crown

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• Today in the west we are asking the question, why is man unhappy? Answer is very simple. We have created a very fast society but we do not have a cozy home, and without a cozy home we do not have a mental state of nerve relaxed personality. Without having a mental state of nerve relaxed personality, you cannot face this fastness of the outer world; it's impossible.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Home

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• The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships-especially with your children and spouse-simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing

  Brian Tracy

  Children, Mirrors, Law

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• As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

  Julia Cameron

  Real, Focus, Encounters

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.82, Penguin

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• If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world are, in fact, coming from that perpetually unfinished part of me-the pulls and tugs originating from my own ambiguity.

  Joan Anderson

  Change, World, Demand

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• Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

  Alan Cohen

  People, Feelings, Events

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• I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

  Helen Keller

  Learning, Light, Order

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