All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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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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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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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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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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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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