"Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one."
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"I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward."
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"Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message."
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"You create your reality. You will find this freedom by learning to look inward, and by realizing that you create the reality that you know. There are no exceptions to this rule. Your successes and your failures alike, you have yourselves created. If you would but understand, this is the truth that would make you free."
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"Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible."
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"The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all."
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"The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs."
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"Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate."
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"To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist."
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"The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness."
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"The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths."
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"As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward."
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"True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer."
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"That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples."
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"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other."
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"Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?"
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"In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts."
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"Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy."
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"One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it."
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"True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart."
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