Internal victories precede external victories.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.
Every cell is eavesdropping on your _x000D_ internal dialogue.
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency.
Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.
Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.
There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside. _x000D_ Let go. And you'll know Freedom.
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; _x000D_ we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who _x000D_ are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, _x000D_ onto its fluid contours, and are home.
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.
I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.
There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.
Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.
Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.
The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.
Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live
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