Anne Bancroft Quotes

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

The only journey is the one within.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

If you do not go within, you without

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.