Hermann Hesse Quotes

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.

May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

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

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

If you do not go within, you without

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Heaven is within you.

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.