Susan Griffin Quotes

I've got a war in my mind

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

There never was a war that was not inward.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.

The enemy is always in the mind.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

What was going on inside of me became louder because everything around me became quieter.