Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth is lived, not taught.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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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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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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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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