Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
HERMANN HESSEHis life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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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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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Every 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.
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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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