“Apply Within”
“APPLY WITHIN
You once told me
You wanted to find
Yourself in the world –
And I told you to
First apply within,
To discover the world
within you.
You once told me
You wanted to save
The world from all its wars –
And I told you to
First save yourself
From the world,
And all the wars
You put yourself
Through.” (Suzy Kassem)
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“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” (Maya Angelou)
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“Close your eyes and let the music set you free.” (The Phantom of the Opera)
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“For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn’t decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.” (Jalaluddin Rumi, Open Secret: Versions of Rumi)
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“Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you’re already home.” (Shannon L. Alder)
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“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.
Another way of thinking of it is: We’re not born with unlimited choices.
We can’t be anything we want to be.
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to an act, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” (Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles)
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“Control your own destiny or someone else will.” (Jack Welch)
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