Hermann Hesse Quotes

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.

I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

I began my pilgrimage on the first of January in 1953. It is my spiritual birthday of sorts. It was a period in which I was merged with the whole. No longer was I a seed buried under the ground, but I felt as a flower reaching out effortlessly toward the sun.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you've awakened to your own infinite worth.