I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse 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 remains each-day world 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 meditation perfect past 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 siddhartha voice water 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 siddhartha self men 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 fate destiny what-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 demand stupidity people There is no reality except the one contained within us. Hermann Hesse unreal philosophy reality If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. Hermann Hesse health intelligent men Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. Hermann Hesse evening may love-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 home tree looks 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 loneliness soul self One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. Hermann Hesse siddhartha errors self 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 stars dream night I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. Hermann Hesse secret life order Happiness is love, nothing else. Hermann Hesse marriage happiness love ...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 breathing ego heaven 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 fashion sorrow aliens 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 games teacher hands I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like. Hermann Hesse fray trousers travel I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. Hermann Hesse eye wisdom heart
