If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse 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 thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself. Hermann Hesse siddhartha heart order Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. Hermann Hesse this-world beautiful world 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. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile. Hermann Hesse intellectual spring world An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. Hermann Hesse way-forward matter men Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute. Hermann Hesse wise mother mean When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. Hermann Hesse eye mean thinking Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone. Hermann Hesse destiny depth men 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 is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation. Hermann Hesse roots tree giving The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river. Hermann Hesse voice rivers water Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. Hermann Hesse clever beautiful mean I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. Hermann Hesse siddhartha inspirational Your soul is the whole world. Hermann Hesse siddhartha soul world Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts. Hermann Hesse asks should doubt She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. Hermann Hesse distance destiny eye Words can not express the joy of new life. Hermann Hesse new-life joy baby I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. Hermann Hesse responsible meaning-of-life believe 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 passion waiting heart Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth. Hermann Hesse perception I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? Hermann Hesse accord difficult self He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right. Hermann Hesse objectivity shining men
