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Quotes about Outside

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

John Muir : American naturalist
John Muir (1838 - 1914)
 
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Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Eckhart Tolle : Gaia Explorer
Eckhart Tolle
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What one looks for outside turns out to be present inside, but only to be discovered after a long detour of seeking externally, in all the wrong places...in a process of gradual reversal, the return of what moves forward in the shape of a circle, in which the end meets the initial point of departure.

Zhang Longxi
Source: Qian Zhongshu on Philosophical and Mystical Paradoxes in the Laozi
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"Give me one prisoner who has found freedom In Side...than one hundred people Out Side, who have found wealth."

Cliff Cowles
 
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Buddha's philosophy: selections from the Pali Canon and an introductory ...‎ - Page 63 by George Francis Allen
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
 
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When you think outside the box, the box goes away.

Richard Reisman
 
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As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It follows that to achieve a society in harmony with Nature, we must be guided by respect for it.

Crispin Tickell
 
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