What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
HERMANN HESSELove must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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