Outer Reality Quotes

What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Whatever you experience in your life is really but the outpicturing of your own thoughts and beliefs. Now, you can change these thoughts and beliefs, and then the outer picture must change too. The outer picture cannot change until you change your thought.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

The sky is no longer out there, but it is right on the edge of the space you are in. The sense of colour is generated inside you. If you then go outside you will see a different coloured sky. You colour the sky.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality.

What you hold in your heart, you will see in your world.

I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I have lived to see this episode repeated in a thousand guises, and since I have spent a large portion of my life in the shade of a nonexistent tree I think I am entitled to speak for the field mouse.

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

All I'm saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process 'blueprinting' because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world.

I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.