Inner Work Quotes

“Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.”

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.”

“You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.”

“If you have anything in your heart other than love, you've got to get it out.”

“Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.”

“Success is not something you get out of what you do.”

“Attitude is an inner concept. It is the most important thing you can develop in your life.”

“Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.”

“When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.”

“What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you.”

“You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.”

“In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life.I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment.But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.”

“Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.”

“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”

“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.”

“When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself”

“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.”

“Many times we ask people to march outwardly, when we haven't yet spent the needed time inwardly.”

“Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"”

“Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.”

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”

“Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.”

“[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you”

“Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.”