Inner World Quotes - Page 4

• The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Age

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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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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• 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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• In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Ambition, Past

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• Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Dream, Teaching, People

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• Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.

  Gottlob Frege

  World, Impression, Locked Up

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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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• 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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• 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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• The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is similar. And if I, hopefully, have managed to somehow describe my inner world in this book, all I count on is that it will have some resonance among the American readers, or, at the very least, the American readers will treat this book as a kind of a guidebook for my inner world, strange as it may appear.

  Vera Pavlova

  Book, People, Different

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• Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Dream, Prayer, Imagination

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• I suppose the daily disciplines are just a reflection of the qualities of my inner world - a mixture of paralysis and terror and a lighter, freer, kind of rebellious woman. So those are just constantly pushing against each other, and that's played out in every area of my life.

  Miranda July

  Reflection, Discipline, Quality

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.16, Tyndale House

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• One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Long, People

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Mind, Atman

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• It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Essentials, World

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• For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love.

  Ken Cohen

  Exercise, Garden, Qigong

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• As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

  Dalai Lama

  Irritation, Worry, Mind

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• I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

  Aldous Huxley

  Judging, World, Wells

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Three, World

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

  Anthony Storr

  Bridges, Creative, Needs

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• Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too. There is no way I can be peacefully happy in this society and in this skin. I am committed to Uneasy Street. I like it; it is my idea that this street leads to the future, and that I am being true to a way of life which is not here yet, but is more real than what is here.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Real, Fighting, Ideas

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• From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Art, Book, Two

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Girl At The Lion d'Or”, p.83, Random House

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• John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.

  William J Doherty

  Book, Successful, Keys

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