Jack Kerouac Quotes

If you do not go within, you without

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

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

Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.

Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The only journey is the one within.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

After I started based freestyling. Just spending a lot of time learning about myself and entering a higher level within my mind. I was exploring my mind, and I ended up finding the Based God.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

I want people to find their inner depth.

What you are looking for is within you

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion