Hermann Hesse Quotes

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

All my life, I believe what my mind tells me; what my heart tells me. All the way back to Congo, it has worked for me.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

There are no meaningless experiences.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.