Betty Ford Quotes

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

The only journey is the one within.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.

I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and ask God, 'Who is Patricia?' You can feel your own nature and know who you are."

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

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

What you are looking for is within you

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

If you do not go within, you without

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.