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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.