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Inner Resources
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“Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not — seek within yourselves to find out what you are.”
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“First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.”
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“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
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“There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.”
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“There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.”
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“If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
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“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”
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“I love people. I love my family, my children ... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
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“The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.”
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“For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.”
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“Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try.”
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“To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you — you don't flow from it.”
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“... whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”
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“The most important things ever said to us are said by our inner selves ...”
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“We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.”
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“Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.”
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“... trust that still, small voice that says, 'This might work and I'll try it.'”
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“The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.”
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“You must create the space in your life to enable your inner guide to share her wisdom, her creativity, her vision, her courage. Unleashed, she is the single most potent resource you have.”
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“To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.”
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“I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.”
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“There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.”
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“Be forever willing to reject guidance from outer sources and listen in the total stillness to your own small voice. It is your one true personal guide in every situation.”