Inner Self Quotes

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love, invite love to accompany you 24/7. Give away love, and it has to come streaming into your life.

My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

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

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

Whatever you are looking for can only be found inside of you.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

All things are complete within ourselves.

Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.

All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.