“A vida de todo ser humano é um caminho em direção a si mesmo, a tentativa de um caminho, o seguir de… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
