One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
Interpretation
True fulfillment comes from self-discovery and understanding oneself, rather than seeking validation externally.
Hermann Hesse emphasizes the importance of internal exploration and the necessity of understanding oneself to find true purpose and meaning in life. The quote suggests that seeking fulfillment or validation from external sources is ultimately misguided and leads one away from authentic self-awareness and self-possession.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-awareness, one might say, 'As Hermann Hesse said, one must find the source within one's own Self.'
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged β to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation.
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.
The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.
The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
It is the hour of pearlβthe interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
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