Saint Augustine Quotes

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The only journey is the one within.

I want people to find their inner depth.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

If you do not go within, you without

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.