A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEI 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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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 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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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