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Internals Quotes

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

"The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Claude Bernard, Eugene Debs Robin (1979). “Claude Bernard and the internal environment: a memorial symposium”

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.112, Advaita Ashrama

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

"Phylicia Rashad Talks Good Deeds and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers