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.
HERMANN HESSEA 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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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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