I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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We 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.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Knowledge 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.
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