Henry Miller Quotes

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

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.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

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.

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.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Truths are a result of knowing yourself.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

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

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.