Tori Amos Quotes

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I listen to myself, listen to my heart.

It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And that can be just a few minutes sitting on your porch feeling the breeze against your face. That can be a few moments spent in meditation or in prayer or remembering three things you're grateful for.

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.

I want people to find their inner depth.

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.