Outer Worlds Quotes - Page 4

• Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.

  Jacob Needleman

  Our World, Essence, Ideas

  Jacob Needleman (2003). “The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders”, p.16, Penguin

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• Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and imploding under the weight of so many competing roles. The women I have written in Bombshells struggle - sometimes hilariously, sometimes tragically - to bridge the chasm between the wilderness of their inner worlds and the demands of their outer worlds. And humour, in the end, is our saviour.

  Joanna Murray-Smith

  Mother, Stars, Children

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• With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Law, Rose, World

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• No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation
  creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner
  world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

  J. B. Priestley

  Faith, Light, Shadow

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• Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.

  Ken Wilber

  Fashion, Business, Mean

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• The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various authors, but in opening up their understanding to the outer world, so that a living stream may flow from their own minds, just as leaves, flowers, and fruit spring from the bud on a tree.

  John Amos Comenius

  Spring, Flower, Ideas

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• Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

  T. Harv Eker

  Love Yourself, Reflection, Self Love

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• A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliot’s designation of our return is ‘through the unknown remembered gate.'

  John Zerzan

  Oneness, Survival, Return

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• We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Trying, World, Temporary

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• And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself -is amenable to man's thought, and that he had dominion over it when he knows it.

  Emmet Fox

  Truth, Rain, Men

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• Psychic phenomena does not mean wisdom; it only means mental understanding of the relationship of the outer world to the inner world.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Mean, Psychics, Understanding

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Believe, Secret, Mind

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

  Amit Ray

  World, Beautification, Inner World

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.48, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.

  Raghubir Singh

  Photography, World

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• We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.

  Max Kozloff

  Reality, World, Photograph

  Max Kozloff (1979). “Photography & Fascination: Essays”

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• Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Artist, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm talking about psychic powers coming down to the everyday, average person. We're able to do things that are emerging. We're slowly beginning to realize that whatever you think and feel can manifest directly in the outer world.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Thinking, Average, Talking

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Communication, World, Lines

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world.

  Nita Leland

  Exercise, People, Confusion

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.14, North Light Books

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• Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Reflection, Bridges

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.

  Joe Vitale

  World

  Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

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• Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Impact, Culture

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books

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• Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities.

  James Allen

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

  James Allen (2009). “Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury”, p.229, Penguin

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• I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind meet and merge. Now, in the landscapes of the surrealist painters, for example, one sees the regions of Inner Space; and increasingly I believe that we will encounter in film and literature scenes which are neither solely realistic nor fantastic. In a sense, it will be a movement in the interzone between both spheres.

  J. G. Ballard

  Believe, Reality, Hands

  Munich Round Up Interview, 1968.

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• The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.

  Albert Hofmann

  Reality, Self, Ego

  Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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