Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
Interpretation
True fulfillment and understanding come from within oneself rather than from external sources.
Hermann Hesse suggests that the deepest truths and desires lie within each individual. Instead of seeking validation or happiness through external circumstances or other people, one must explore their inner self to discover the reality they truly long for. This introspection is essential for personal growth and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-awareness and personal growth.
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.
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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