inner space

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We fashion the world that surrounds us by the intensity of our imagination and feeling, and we illuminate or darken our lives by the concepts we hold of ourselves. Nothing is more important to us than our conception of ourselves, and especially is true of our concept of the deep, dimensionally greater One within us.

Those that help or hinder us, whether they know it or not, are the servants of that law which shapes outward circumstances in harmony with our inner nature. It is our conception of ourselves which frees or constrains us, though it may use material agencies to achieve its purpose. Because life molds the outer world to reflect the inner arrangement of our minds, there is no way of bringing about the outer perfection we seek other than by the transformation of ourselves. 

No help cometh from without: the hills to which we lift our eyes are those of an inner range.

It is thus to our own consciousness that we must turn as to the only reality, the only foundation on which all phenomena can be explained. We can rely absolutely on the justice of this law to give us only that which is of the nature of ourselves.

To attempt to change the world before we change our concept of ourselves is to struggle against the nature of things. There can be no outer change until there is first an inner change.


—Neville Goddard

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If a little pebble thrown into the sea puts the water in action, one hardly stops to think to what extent this vibration acts upon the sea. What one can see is the little waves and circles that the pebble produces before one. One sees these, but the vibration that has been produced in the sea reaches much further than man can ever imagine.

What we call space is a much finer world. If we call it sea, it is a sea with the finest fluid. If we call it land, it is a land that is incomparably more fertile than the land we know. This land takes everything in it and brings it up, it rears it, it allows it to grow—our eyes do not see it, our ears do not hear it.


—Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Mysticism of Sound and Music
noosphe.re

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Don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. 

It is quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. 

—Rumi

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