For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder. Hermann Hesse classlovemen Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day. Hermann Hesse remainseach-dayworld During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. Hermann Hesse meditationperfectpast They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. Hermann Hesse siddharthavoicewater I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self. Hermann Hesse siddharthaselfmen If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward Hermann Hesse fatedestinywhat-matters There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness. Hermann Hesse demandstupiditypeople There is no reality except the one contained within us. Hermann Hesse unrealphilosophyreality If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. Hermann Hesse healthintelligentmen Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. Hermann Hesse eveningmaylove-is When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. Hermann Hesse hometreelooks We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. Hermann Hesse lonelinesssoulself One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. Hermann Hesse siddharthaerrorsself Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him. Hermann Hesse starsdreamnight I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. Hermann Hesse secretlifeorder Happiness is love, nothing else. Hermann Hesse marriagehappinesslove ...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 and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion. Hermann Hesse breathingegoheaven I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope Hermann Hesse fashionsorrowaliens A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught. Hermann Hesse gamesteacherhands I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like. Hermann Hesse fraytrouserstravel
