Within - Quotes
We don`t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
You are permanent within me in this chaos.
Somewhere deep in my mind you shine forever, without
moving, silent, like the angel awed by death,
or like the insect burying itself
in the rotted heart of a tree.
Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn`t belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy`s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
[People] seek within the short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires; each of which alone is insatiable.
If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within fifty years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared what lies within us.