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From Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I…
- The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was…
- The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague…
- And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness…
- The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have…
- Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.
- Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling…
- Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
- For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being…
- It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would…
- All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into…
- But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
- I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
- I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn…
- No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a…
- I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.
- What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.…
- To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the…
- The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one…
- 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,…
- You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you…
- There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my…
- ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states…
- The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon…
- We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our…
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