"His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright."
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"Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty"
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"The doorway to success swings outward not inward."
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"Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions."
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"The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience."
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"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."
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"No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!"
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"Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence."
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"Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now."
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"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"
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"Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour."
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"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."
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"Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self."
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"Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer."
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"All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties."
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"We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions."
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"Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere."
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"If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad."
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