Desire Quote by Hermann Hesse

“For how long does one dwell in the Self? Once the complete state as the Self arises, there is indeed no more dwelling (in…

— Dada Bhagwan

“It was an alarming thought that these false selves should still have me in their power, and in my bewilderment I began wondering whether…

— Anna Kavan

To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting,…

— Peter Straub

“If we search into the innermost part of our self, we come in the end to an utter void where nothing from the outside…

— Paul Brunton

“At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth of I…

— Gao Xingjian

“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s…

— Dada Bhagwan

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb;…

— Virginia Woolf

“When we feel life escapes us and we don’t recognize ourselves anymore, we do well to build a safe haven in our frame of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad others, when…

— Stephen Batchelor

“A vast dawning entirety lies before the soul, our senses lose themselves in it as do our eyes and oh! we long to make…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and…

— Peter Kreeft