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Hermann Hesse Quote: “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.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “All over, people were seeking “freedom” and “happiness” somewhere behind themselves, out of the sheer fear of being reminded of their own responsibilities and being admonished to travel their own path.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “That I know nothing about myself, that Siddhartha has remained thus alien and unknown to me, stems from one cause, a single cause: I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself! I searched Atman, I searched Brahmin, I was willing to dissect myself and peel off all of its layers, to find the core of all peels in its unknown interior, the Atman, life, the divine part, the ultimate part. But I have lost myself in the process.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Fate and character are different names for the same idea.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again, to sleep deeply again and to awaken refreshed again. I had to become a fool again in order to find Atman in myself. I had to sin in order to live again. Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it. He was aware of a great happiness mounting within him.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Animals are sad as a rule,” she went on. “And when a man is sad – I don’t mean because he has a toothache or has lost some money, but because he sees, for once in a way, how it all is with life and everything, and is sad in earnest – he always looks a little like an animal. He looks not only sad, but more right and more beautiful than usual. That’s how it is, and that’s how you looked, Steppenwolf, when I saw you for the first time.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “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.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “But it’s a poor fellow who can’t take his pleasure without asking other people’s permission.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Anyone knowing how to live for the moment, to live in the present as she did, treasuring every little wayside flower with loving care and deriving value from every playful little instant, had nothing to fear from life.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish – and it will.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Knulp was right in doing what his nature demanded and what few others could do, in speaking to strangers like a child and winning their hearts, in saying pleasant things to ladies of all ages, and making Sundays out of weekdays.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “What is meditation? What is leaving one’s body? What is fasting? What is holding one’s breath? It is fleeing from the Self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a Self; it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “You’ve never lived what you are thinking, and that isn’t good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “The art of love-giving and taking become one.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self – the great secret!”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Als we iemand haten dan haten we in zijn beeld iets dat in onszelf huist. Wat niet in onszelf huist, windt ons niet op.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Zo vallen rondom een herfstboom de bladeren, hij voelt het niet, regen stroomt van hem af, of zon, of vorst en binnenin hem trekt het leven zich tot het uiterste en verborgenste terug. Hij sterft niet. Hij wacht.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Narziss was dark and thin of face, and Goldmund open and radiant as a flower. Narziss was a thinker and anatomiser, Goldmund a dreamer and a child. Yet things common to both could bridge these differences. Both were knightly and delicate; both set apart by visible signs from their fellows, since both had received the particular admonishment of fate.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “In the beginning was the myth.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “No one ever arrives home,” she said amiably. “But when the paths of friends meet, the whole world looks like home for a while.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “We who bore the mark, felt no anxiety about the shape the future was to take. All of these faiths and teachings seemed to us already dead and useless. The only duty and destiny we acknowledged was that each one of us should become so completely himself, so utterly faithful to the active seed which nature planted within him, that in living out its growth he could be surprised by nothing unknown to come.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “There are many ways in which the god can make us lonely and lead us to ourselves.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Into being a priest, into this arrogance, into this spirituality, his self had retreated, there it sat firmly and grew, while he thought he would kill it by fasting and penance.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God’s voice can be heard.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But he learned more from the river than Vasudeva could teach him. He learned from it continually. Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Charm me. Furiously. Torment me. In detail.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Everything was a lie, everything stank, everything stank of lies, everything feigned meaning and happiness and beauty, and yet everything was decaying while nobody acknowledged the fact. The world tested bitter; life was agony.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”
Hermann Hesse Quote: “To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.”
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