Quotes about Inner

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

Anne, it's not the color of the balloon that is important. It's what's inside that makes all the difference.

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

But David felt something else as well. A tension. A hesitation. Something wasn't exactly right about all of this. But that inner hesitation made no sense in light of the circumstances in which he and his loyal men found themselves.

Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with being perpetually busy heaping meditation upon meditation, prayer upon prayer, reading upon reading instead of learning from the simple souls the great secret of knowing how, from time to time, to hold yourself back a little in peace and silence, attentive before God.5

There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.