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"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."
"When traversing the vast sea of loneliness, Oneness is the only true safe harbor."
"The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be."
"You are not separate from existence; you are existence."
"You're not a piece of nothing, but the all of everything."
"Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence."
"I am like the H2O in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it "water, others at another place and call it "jal, and some others at a third place and call it "pani. The Christians call it "water, the Hindus "jal, and the Muslims pani. But it is one and the same thing. I am not tied to the doctrines of any church, synagogue, temple or mosque, yet I am the reason of their birth."
"And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity."
Explore more quotes by Hermann Hesse
"When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree."
"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."
"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."
"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."
"I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today."
"A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth."
"Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery."
"You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect."
"Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery... It is mystery I love and pursue."
"I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself."
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