The truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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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 your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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