If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
Hate, Person, Yourself, Psychological Projection, Self-awareness, Interpersonal Insight
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“It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.” Hermann Hesse
Father, Image, Childhood, Destruction, Identity, Personal Growth
Hermann Hesse Father, Image, Childhood, Destruction, Identity, Personal Growth“Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" "How come?” Hermann Hesse
Searching, Finding, Wisdom, Paradox, Self Discovery, Spiritual Journey
Hermann Hesse Searching, Finding, Wisdom, Paradox, Self Discovery, Spiritual Journey“We can understand one another; but each one is able to explain only himself.” Hermann Hesse
Understand, Explain, Himself, Interpersonal Limitations, Self-knowledge, Communication Barriers
Hermann Hesse Understand, Explain, Himself, Interpersonal Limitations, Self-knowledge, Communication Barriers“Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos.” Hermann Hesse
Music, Equilibrium, Cosmos, Artistic Philosophy, Universal Harmony, Spiritual Insight
Hermann Hesse Music, Equilibrium, Cosmos, Artistic Philosophy, Universal Harmony, Spiritual Insight“Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.” Hermann Hesse
Inspiration, Creativity, Transience, Memory, Inner Wisdom, Artistic Expression
Hermann Hesse Inspiration, Creativity, Transience, Memory, Inner Wisdom, Artistic Expression“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” Hermann Hesse
Love, Know, You, Emotional Revelation, Relational Insight, Personal Growth
Hermann Hesse Love, Know, You, Emotional Revelation, Relational Insight, Personal Growth“We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.” Hermann Hesse
Gods, Struggle, Bless, Spiritual Dynamic, Human Condition, Existential Relationship
Hermann Hesse Gods, Struggle, Bless, Spiritual Dynamic, Human Condition, Existential Relationship“His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.” Hermann Hesse
Oscillation, Duality, Existence, Complexity, Experience, Human Nature
Hermann Hesse Oscillation, Duality, Existence, Complexity, Experience, Human Nature“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
Listen, Quiet, Soul, Spiritual Learning, Non-judgmental Awareness, Inner Stillness
Hermann Hesse Listen, Quiet, Soul, Spiritual Learning, Non-judgmental Awareness, Inner Stillness“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages...” Hermann Hesse
Longing, Rage, Smash, Emotional Intensity, Existential Frustration, Destructive Impulse
Hermann Hesse Longing, Rage, Smash, Emotional Intensity, Existential Frustration, Destructive Impulse“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” Hermann Hesse
Holding, Strong, Letting Go, Emotional Wisdom, Personal Growth, Life Philosophy
Hermann Hesse Holding, Strong, Letting Go, Emotional Wisdom, Personal Growth, Life Philosophy“Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.” Hermann Hesse
Knowledge, Wisdom, Taught, Experiential Learning, Personal Discovery, Communicative Limitation
Hermann Hesse Knowledge, Wisdom, Taught, Experiential Learning, Personal Discovery, Communicative Limitation“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!” Hermann Hesse
Afraid, Harmony, Unknown, Self-acceptance, Societal Fear, Inner Exploration
Hermann Hesse Afraid, Harmony, Unknown, Self-acceptance, Societal Fear, Inner Exploration“Solitude is independence.” Hermann Hesse
Solitude, Independence, Freedom, Self Reflection, Personal Space, Inner Peace
Hermann Hesse Solitude, Independence, Freedom, Self Reflection, Personal Space, Inner Peace“Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself!” Hermann Hesse
Self Discovery, Resistance, Fear, Journey, Personal Growth, Inner Truth
Hermann Hesse Self Discovery, Resistance, Fear, Journey, Personal Growth, Inner Truth“During the dark hours I felt my sick heart expand and beat more furiously, and I no longer made any distinction between pleasure and pain, but one was similar to the other; both hurt and both were precious. Whether my inner life went well or badly, my discovered strength stood peacefully outside looking on and knew that light and dark were closely related and that sorrow and peace were rhythm, part and spirit of the same great music.” Hermann Hesse
Pleasure, Pain, Duality, Strength, Rhythm, Inner Life
Hermann Hesse Pleasure, Pain, Duality, Strength, Rhythm, Inner Life“Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human-being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant. Many a one is a human-being above and a fish below.” Hermann Hesse
Birth, Traces, Human-being, Evolutionary Legacy, Personal Development, Existential Duality
Hermann Hesse Birth, Traces, Human-being, Evolutionary Legacy, Personal Development, Existential Duality“Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.” Hermann Hesse
Road, Life, Self, Personal Journey, Existential Exploration, Spiritual Path
Hermann Hesse Road, Life, Self, Personal Journey, Existential Exploration, Spiritual Path“Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.” Hermann Hesse
Duality, Humanity, Morality, Complexity, Self Reflection, Existence
Hermann Hesse Duality, Humanity, Morality, Complexity, Self Reflection, Existence“No, there was no teaching a truly searching person, someone who truly wanted to find, could accept. But he who had found, he could approve of any teachings, every path, every goal, there was nothing standing between him and all the other thousand any more who lived in that what is eternal, who breathed what is divine.” Hermann Hesse
Searching, Found, Divine, Spiritual Journey, Personal Enlightenment, Universal Acceptance
Hermann Hesse Searching, Found, Divine, Spiritual Journey, Personal Enlightenment, Universal Acceptance