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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Hermann Hesse
Passion, Home, Creative
Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

Hermann Hesse
Disappointment, Passion, Reality
Hermann Hesse (1957). “Magister Ludi”, Frederick Ungar

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

Hermann Hesse
Spiritual, Passion, Soul
Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.

Hermann Hesse
Passion, Heart, Rivers
Hermann Hesse (2017). “Siddhartha”, p.77, Youcanprint

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, Heart, Waiting

Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.

Hermann Hesse
Breakup, Children, Passion
"Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 217, 1910.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

Hermann Hesse
Passion, Self, Secret
Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.15, Om Books International

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