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There is no reality except the one contained within us.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Philosophy, Reality, Unreal

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

There is a miracle in every new beginning

New Beginnings, Miracle

The truth is lived, not taught.

Truth, Literature, Taught

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

Dream, Sweet, Stars

"Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Nature, Power, Men

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Siddhartha, Would Be, Literature

Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Love Is, Rocks, Water

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Strength, Strong, Demand

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Men, World, Today

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

Inspirational, Encouraging, Song

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

Success, Men, World

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Insanity, Insane, Method

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

Flow, Fit, Wave

Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.429, Macmillan

When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

Mean, Thinking, Goal

"Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 140, 1922.

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

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

Time, Ocean, Past

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.81, Om Books International

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Being Single, Soul, Literature

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

Water, Saws, Moments

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

Tree, Longing For Home, Preacher

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Life, Wisdom, Art

Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.98, Om Books International

Your soul is the whole world.

Soul, Siddhartha, World

Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.5, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

Flower, Heart, Light

Hermann Hesse, “Stages”

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Independent, Thinking, Law

Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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.

Spring, Intellectual, World

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Magic

"Steps". Poem by Hermann Hesse, www.theguardian.com. 1941.

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