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.
HERMANN HESSEFaith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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