You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. Hermann Hesse More Quotes by Hermann Hesse More Quotes From Hermann Hesse I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha. Hermann Hesse siddhartha secret want It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. Hermann Hesse respect honor motivational All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult? Hermann Hesse difficult trying life Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Hermann Hesse path men Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. Hermann Hesse stupid writing inspirational I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. Hermann Hesse unity diversity blood Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods. Hermann Hesse rain children school Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all. Hermann Hesse singing rivers moving Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one. Hermann Hesse one-day soul night Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. Hermann Hesse witty men thinking Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul. Hermann Hesse change long reality A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new Hermann Hesse eye father children The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life. Hermann Hesse grace perfect world Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Hermann Hesse siddhartha secret-love people No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds. Hermann Hesse wave fit flow I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. Hermann Hesse teaching blood The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future. Hermann Hesse siddhartha rivers past Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born. Hermann Hesse steps men facts Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. Hermann Hesse space stars years Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. Hermann Hesse goal waiting thinking
