Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
The task of the church, for example, becomes less that of indoctrinating or relating people to an external divine power and more that of providing opportunities for people to touch the infinite center of all things and to grow into all that they are destined to be.
Don't instantly throw yourself into external demands.
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.
Life is in balance. The swings in the mind are there to give you the experience, and to let you discover the you within you. . . That balance and swing lets your standard be tested. You cannot hold to something external. You must find your own depth and test it, confirm it.
External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
External silence helps to achieve inner silence.
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.
Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.
Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others. . . are cheerful in a graveyard.