“The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.”

“Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.”

“The inner world is as real as the outer world. One ought to be conscious of that. It, too, has its landscape, contours, possibilities, its boundless regions.”

“I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.”

“The inner world of each man and woman is connected with the inner world of the earth. The spirit becomes flesh. Part of each individual soul, then, is intimately connected with what we will call the world's soul, or the soul of the earth.”

“The poet is always concerned with achieving a balance between the inner and the outer world; it is his business to hold in a single thought reality and justice.”

“There are two ways of summing up world history, the inner way and the outer way. Both have been at the mercy of scribes and policies.”

“Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”

“Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.”

“And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to ruffle—a peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the shallows of life.”