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.
HERMANN HESSETo die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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