#inward

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ↗

— Plutarch

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. ↗

— William James

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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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