Lucinda Williams Quotes

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

Awareness is empowering.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.