Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
HERMANN HESSESeriousness 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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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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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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