The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEThe river is everywhere.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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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 are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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