When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
HERMANN HESSEEach man’s life represents a road toward himself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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