Spirituality Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Your soul is the whole world.

— Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

— Hermann Hesse

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,

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“Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life.”

— Hermann Hesse

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

— Hermann Hesse

“...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.”

— Hermann Hesse

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

— Hermann Hesse

In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks…

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“A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every…

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“to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.”

— Hermann Hesse

“From the sacred center of the world streams forth an irrepressible desire to overcome the silence between things. Art, the ever flowing…

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The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine…

— Hermann Hesse

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which…

— Hermann Hesse

Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can…

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“Over his soul in fleeting waves of happiness, the dreamlike presentiment of a bright earth ruled by the sun began to flicker,…

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All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling…

— Hermann Hesse

I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive…

— Hermann Hesse

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the…

— Hermann Hesse

“I have experienced on my body and on my soul that I needed sin very much, I needed lust, the desire for…

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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had…

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When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good…

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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering.…

— Hermann Hesse

“He had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmins had already revealed to him…

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“I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering…

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“The realization of what wisdom actually was slowly blossomed and ripened in Siddhartha—and he discovered what the goal of his long search…

— Hermann Hesse

“In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred…

— Hermann Hesse

“What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that…

— Hermann Hesse

“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you…

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“In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest,…

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“But he, Siddhartha, was not a source of joy for himself, he found no delight in himself. Walking the rosy paths of…

— Hermann Hesse

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate…

— Hermann Hesse

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being…

— Hermann Hesse

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole…

— Hermann Hesse

“You will have to multiply many times your two-fold being and complicate your complexities still further. Instead of narrowing your world and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It…

— Hermann Hesse

“Sensuality isn't worth a hair more than spirituality, and it's the same the other way around. It's all one, everything is equally…

— Hermann Hesse

“Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It…

— Hermann Hesse

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was.…

— Hermann Hesse

For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the…

— Hermann Hesse