Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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You 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.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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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