Hermann Hesse Quotes

What's in your soul is in your soul.

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.

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

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

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.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

The only journey is the one within.

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.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

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

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.

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

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.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

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.

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.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

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.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

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