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• I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teaching, Blood

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

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• What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.

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  Pain, Drinking, Wine

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1457, Google Publishing

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• Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

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  Order, Demand, Chaos

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• Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

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  Reality, Siddhartha

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

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• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

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  Spiritual, Real, Men

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1922.

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• Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

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  Change, Reality, Long

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• Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Teacher

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• And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.

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  Home, Sky, Earth

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

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• I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

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  Believe, Meaning Of Life, Responsible

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• Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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  Book, Writing, Humanity

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• The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

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  Perfect, Grace, World

  "Siddhartha".

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• The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

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  Peace, War, Our World

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• It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

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  Humility, Men, Judging

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• Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

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  Life, Law, Tree

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

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• There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

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  Book, Boys, Ideas

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

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  Contentment, Steppenwolf

  Steppenwolf pt. 1 (1927)

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• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

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  Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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• You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

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  Siddhartha, Together, Unbroken

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.28, Om Books International

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• My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

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  Real, Self, Siddhartha

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• Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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  Freedom, Ideas, Literature

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• She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

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  Love, Stars, Winning

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

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• It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

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  Life, Hate, Hippie

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.110, Om Books International

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• The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

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  Rivers, Depth, Taught

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.80, Om Books International

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• The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

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  Dancing, Substance, World

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

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• Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

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  Journey, Men, Discovery

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

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