Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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