Inner Work Quotes

“Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.”
― Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace

“Who you want to be is already inside of you waiting for you to confront who you are and tag them in to help you win the battle of the mind.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“The Yoga is in the in-between. 
It’s between each breath, each posture, each experience. It’s in the growing, the learning, the doing, and, often, the waiting. We can grow more when we lean into the in-between and see the beauty in the process.”
― Raegan Robinson

“By doing shadow work, we learn that every single emotion and wound that we possess has a gift to share with us. Even the most obnoxious, ugly, or shameful parts of ourselves provide a path back to Oneness.”
― Aletheia Luna, Mindful Shadow Work: Exercises For Befriending Your Dark Side, Healing Trauma, and Finding Joy

“The only difference between those who DO and those who talk about doing it but never can is their relationship with themselves.”
― Oli Anderson

“If I shine in the light of sun then will I be visible after the sunset? One thing I learnt very early... Because life had decided to hit me hardest. I made a conscious choice to face my own darkness and deep dive because below there swam some dots of light..”
― Ramesh Sood, Untitled Life’s Random Lessons : A tapestry of anecdotes on life, mindset, leadership, communication and relationships.

“Every level of spiritual achievement comes with price and its own reward. But, the bottom line is to keep on moving in the inner work and journey. The moment the traveler becomes stuck in the same level and enjoys it complacently for a prolonged period, the Dark Night arrives again. This is actually very good for us because it is the Soul's esoteric clock that instigates the change in order for the personality to keep on moving to a higher training ground.”
― Master Del Pe, Beyond The Dark Night of the Soul - Master Del Pe

“It’s odd,” the Warrior of the Light says to himself. “I have met so many people who, at the first opportunity, try to show their very worst qualities. They hide their inner strength behind aggression and hide their fear of loneliness behind an air of independence. They do not believe in their own abilities, but are constantly trumpeting their virtues.”

A warrior reads these messages in many of the men and women he meets. He is never taken in by appearances and makes a point of remaining silent when people try to impress him. He uses these occasions to correct his own faults, for other people make an excellent mirror. A Warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.”
― Paolo Coelho

“It’s odd,” the Warrior of the Light says to himself. “I have met so many people who, at the first opportunity, try to show their very worst qualities. They hide their inner strength behind aggression and hide their fear of loneliness behind an air of independence. They do not believe in their own abilities, but are constantly trumpeting their virtues.”

A warrior reads these messages in many of the men and women he meets. He is never taken in by appearances and makes a point of remaining silent when people try to impress him. He uses these occasions to correct his own faults, for other people make an excellent mirror.

A Warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.”
― Paolo Coelho

“It's odd," the Warrior of the Light says to himself. "I have met so many people who, at the first opportunity, try to show their very worst qualities. They hide their inner strength behind aggression and hide their fear of loneliness behind an air of independence. They do no believe in their own abilities, but are constantly trumpeting their virtues."

A warrior reads these messages in many of the men and women he meets. He is never taken in by appearances and makes a point of remaining silent when people try to impress him. He uses these occasions to correct his own faults, for other people make an excellent mirror.

A Warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“Don’t wait around until someone establishes paradise on earth—do your part. The world changes one person at a time, from the bottom up. And the only person you can change is yourself.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World

“The ultimate barometer for what’s actually going on inside you is to reverse engineer your unconscious intentions by the RESULTS you consistently keep getting and the current state of your life – not by what you consistently keep telling yourself.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“The unconscious is always trying to make itself conscious and so if you slow down and listen you can align yourself instead of being torn to pieces.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“Your real nature is to move at your own pace but your conscious mind and all its conditioning is constantly racing around like a monkey swinging from branch to branch looking for something it can never find.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“You can either trust and let the real fruit grow on the vine or you can distort, resist, and pollute your relationship with life and let some Frankenstein ‘thing’ appear instead.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“Ignorance (of the truth) may protect us from shame in the short-term but it can never protect us from the Void.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“A REAL story can put you on the path to creation; an UNREAL story will put you on the path to destruction.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“We can either see the storm as something that has come to destroy us or something that has come to wash away anything that we carry inside ourselves that’s unreal.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“Shame causes us to force things that can never be forced, see the real as unreal, and treat the fragments as the whole.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“If you want to live the realest life possible, then it actually makes sense to never take what your brain shows you at face value.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“The Void always calls us into it for the same reason: a lack of acceptance of whatever is true.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“If you’re always obsessed about something out there, you’ll never become anything in there where it actually counts.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Does it make you feel good to play the victim? Where is the pay-off? You must be getting some satisfaction from playing this role to cling to it this way.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“What is every person’s deepest desire at the core of their being? To be loved and accepted without condition.”
― Kyra Jessen, THE ANTICIPATION PRINCIPLE: Becoming The Most Effortless You

“You deserve joy, fulfillment, and success. Without guilt, without resistance. And the very fact that you desire it is the confirmation that you can have it.

Desire exists for one reason alone: to move you forward.”
― Kyra Jessen, THE ANTICIPATION PRINCIPLE: Becoming The Most Effortless You

“Scratch the surface and you stay lost. Go deeper and you awaken.”
― SunDeep Mehra

“Poetry is how I relate to myself.”
― Priscilla Zorrilla

“Assimilation is the process by which your inner work takes root in how your self-as-leader shows up in your day to day.”
― Natalie K. Pickering, Leading Becomes You: A Real-World Framework for Leading from the Inside Out

“Patterns don’t repeat because we’re weak. They repeat because they once felt familiar enough to feel like home.”
― Louise Fields, Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)