Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEGod does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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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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