Julien Green Quotes

I want people to find their inner depth.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

The only journey is the one within.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.