Inward Quotes

“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.

The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.

Dare to breach the surface and sink.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.

A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Look upward to your God for direction! Look inward into yourself and discover your talents! Look outward into your environment and get helped! Stop looking at one direction!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents - and myself - I glimpsed our whole family life as if it were freed of that clock time which spaces us apart so inhibitingly, divides young and old, keeps our living through the same experiences at separate distances. It is our inward journey that leads us through time - forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.”
― Liezi, The Book of Master Lie

“It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would not have discovered my enormous capacity to endure. I would have not have embraced this deeply contemplative place within my own being.”
― Katina Makris, Out of the Woods: Healing from Lyme Disease for Body, Mind, and Spirit

“It’s the inward attention that takes you into the depth of the mind.”
― Roshan Sharma

“If you notice something good, you must make it grow - whether it is within you or around you.”
― Sadghuru

“Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creeping ivy, our desire to know worlds beyond it?”
― Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

“The best direction to solve a problem is to look inward”
― Dido Stargaze

“The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.”
― Roshan Sharma

“Sweetness in speaking doesn't assure sweetness of the soul; beauty of a peacock doesn't stop it from swallowing a snake.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Resurrection joy is an inward life of blessing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Make an expedition to your mind, for it is the most rewarding journey.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“A bald head is better than a bald mind. It is profitable to grow in wisdom, rather than appealing only in appearance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“The most difficult thing to be in a world so loud is a person so quiet.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire