Hermann Hesse Quotes

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

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.

If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

Truth is within ourselves.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.

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

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.