But in the neutral state of aloneness, the psychoemotional line between solitude and loneliness can be as thin as a razor's edge and as lacerating to the soul.
Life is everywhere, life is in us ourselves, not outside. There will be people by my side, and to be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that's what life is all about, that's its task. I have come to recognize that.
1w ago
It is not the body's posture, but the mind's attitude that counts. A man may kneel in church and be spiritually proud, or stand in the marketplace and be inwardly at prayer.
2w ago
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings, as the plant is a slave to the weather. But the man who has learned to live inwardly is never wholly at the mercy of circumstance, for he carries his world within him.
2w ago
The universe is transformation; life is opinion. Things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain without; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.
Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul, if you are ever to find peace.
1mo ago
A man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings, as the plant is a slave to the weather and the soil in which it grows.
1mo ago
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. But do not mistake this for comfort — it is the heaviest burden a man can carry, to be the sole author of his own becoming.
1mo ago
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air at rest, and the weathercock of the air in motion.
2mo ago
The thing that astonishes me is that the same images, the same landscapes, return each night with such fidelity. They must exist somewhere.
3mo ago
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
4mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
