Your soul is the whole world.
HERMANN HESSEWithin you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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.
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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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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 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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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