Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSEEvery 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.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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The river is everywhere.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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