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.
HERMANN HESSEPassion 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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