George Augustus Henry Sala Quotes

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You have immense talents, resources and abilities that are untapped.

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.

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

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

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

The most powerful thing we have is our psyche. And to use our minds, we must be clear, vulnerable and open, which will take us to places we didn't even know were there or couldn't imagine ourselves going.

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography