Going Inward Quotes

#1. The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

C. G. Jung

#2. I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

Conor Oberst

#3. We were not made to look inward for self-realization, but to look outwards in love. I

Tim Chester

#4. Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.

Dan Millman

#5. To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Plato

#7. When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God ...

Rachel Simon

#8. The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.

Joseph Campbell

#9. Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.

Walter Chantry

#10. Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

John C. Maxwell

#11. The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.

Roshan Sharma

#12. So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip ... In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. right knee knuckling inward as his backswing began, trunk twisting to its limit as his left shoulder turned under his chin. 'Every muscle

Kevin Cook

#14. Give thanks every morning and share quiet reflection every night. The important thing, take time to turn off and look inward.

Tony Curl

#15. Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. Religion that does not inspire
outward compassion and inward awakening
is not religion.

Ivan M. Granger

#17. It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I'm never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

Susan Cain

#19. Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

Francis De Sales

#20. You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

Robert Adams

#21. Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#22. We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.

Vince Cable

#23. Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving ... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God ...

Pope Benedict XVI

#24. I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.

Dave Davies

#25. For according to the outward man, we are in this world, and according to the inward man, we are in the inward world.... Since then we are generated out of both worlds, we speak in two languages, and we must be understood also by two languages.

Jakob Bohme

#26. Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

William Penn

#28. Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

Deepak Chopra

#29. Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,
the human soul!

James Russell Lowell

#30. Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

Carl Jung

#31. Maybe that was what happened when people grew up in a place where mountains shut them in, kept everything turned inward, buffered them from everything else. How long did it take before that landscape become internalized, was passed down from generation to generation like blood type or eye color?

Ron Rash

#32. William James said, "You cannot travel without until you have travelled within." Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." People who discover their sweet spot are people who take the inward journey and examine themselves. They make the choice to live until they die.

Scott M. Fay

#33. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.

Tarryn Fisher

#34. Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge." Sri

Paramahansa Yogananda

#35. The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread to make a show of representing the whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

#37. The aim of education. - Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.

Bruce Lee

#38. How much easier it is to hate, than to turn inward and face our fear.

Paul Vereshack

#39. 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

#40. I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.

Paul Nash

#41. Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

Nicolas Cage

#42. Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere - somewhere - there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it. She

Mary Balogh

#43. As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

Sonia Sotomayor

#44. Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

Rodney Crowell

#45. Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Pope Francis

#46. Also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.

Francine Prose