Outer Worlds Quotes - Page 6

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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