Inner Work Quotes

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that’s my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn’t fill my model of how you should be, that’s my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that’s your Karma. If I’m cheated, that’s my work on myself.

Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.