To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSETo die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSEThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSEEvery experience has its element of magic.
HERMANN HESSEHappiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
HERMANN HESSEWe 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.
HERMANN HESSEWhat you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
HERMANN HESSEA magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSEThe true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEOnly within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
HERMANN HESSEA longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSEMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
HERMANN HESSELove your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEWhen dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSE