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Showing posts with label Hermann Hesse. Show all posts

Thursday

 





...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 -



Friday

 




...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 -



Wednesday

 





...I live in my dreams... 


 ...that's what you sense... 


...Other people live in dreams... 


...but not in their own... 


...That's the difference...






- Hermann Hesse -




Saturday









...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...









Friday








...Knowledge can be communicated...


...but not wisdom... 


...One can find it...


...live it...


...be fortified by it...


...do wonders through it... 


...but one cannot communicate and teach it...