The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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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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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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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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