Gloria Steinem Quotes

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.

Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness, sin is bound to happen. Sin simply means that you don't know what you are doing, you are unaware, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. But to recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of a great pilgrimage. To recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of real virtue. To see that "I am ignorant" is the first glimpse of wisdom.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.