if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without
Interpretation
True happiness and fulfillment come from within rather than from external circumstances.
This quote suggests that our inner state of being determines our experience of the world. If we have not developed a sense of peace, joy, or 'heaven' within ourselves, then our attempts to find happiness in the external world will be futile. The essence of this message emphasizes the importance of inner fulfillment as a prerequisite for experiencing joy and contentment in life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance.
What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.
The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!
We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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