Inward Quotes - Page 18

• Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Home, Order

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• Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Fashion, Should Have, Needs

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• We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

  Rumi

  Life, Dancing, Meditation

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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• I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Self, Solitude

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.85, Bantam

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• The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Wall, Weather, Air

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• Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. 'I feel good here': the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice.

  Michel de Certeau

  Pain, Past, Practice

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.108, Univ of California Press

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• Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater;
  Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.

  Richard Realf

  Symbols, Creator, Greater

  Richard Realf, “Indirection”

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• When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

  Rollo May

  Flare Up, Mad, Feelings

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 1: Introduction: Our Schizoid World, p. 31, 1969.

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• Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always living in love-longing, and he wants our souls to be gladly disposed toward him . . . by his grace he lifts up and will draw our outer disposition to our inward, and will make us all at unity with him, and each of us with others in the true, lasting joy which is Jesus.

  Julian of Norwich

  Sweet, Jesus, Blessed

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• When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Philosophical, Home, Mind

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• Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

  Elizabeth Carter

  Real, Pride, Vices

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• All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

  Alexander Crummell

  Success, Spring, Real

  Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.146, University of Virginia Press

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• There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Giving, Deeds

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

  Meister Eckhart

  Eye, People, Comfort

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• A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Heart, Remembrance

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• Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Creativity, Cutting

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Soul And Body, Form

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

  Iris Murdoch

  Thinking, Secret, Mind

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

  Arthur Ashe

  Failure, Losing, Defeat

  Arthur Ashe (1995). “Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Women, Mean, Practice

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• Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Thinking Of You, Yoga, Grief

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• Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.

  Walter Hilton

  Spiritual, Humility, Reality

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• Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Motivational, Looks, Reach Out

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• When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

  Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad

  Wisdom, Islamic, Evil

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