Your soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSEA tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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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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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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