inner perspective Quotes

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take.

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

As a man is, so he sees.

I don't have to stand back as an outsider to look at society.

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

When everybody's looking at you, it does your head in. When you're always on the inside, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.

I think only Kanye can truly understand Kanye.