When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSEYou know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Solitude is independence.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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The river is everywhere.
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