Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSEOh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSESolitude is independence.
HERMANN HESSEWhat you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSELove your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
HERMANN HESSEEvery phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
HERMANN HESSENo permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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.
HERMANN HESSEOnly within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
HERMANN HESSEA longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSEChaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSEYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
HERMANN HESSEYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
HERMANN HESSEThe river is everywhere.
HERMANN HESSE