Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann HesseHalf smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture. 'You are clever, O Samana,' said the Illustrious One, 'you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.
Hermann HesseGaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.
Hermann HesseStichwörter: self
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 HesseOnce 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 HesseBeginning to doubt the gods, there is only Atman...and where is Atman found but in the self? But where is this self?
Hermann HesseYou should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?
Hermann HesseGood that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.
Hermann HesseYou've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
Hermann HesseStichwörter: life living actions thoughts
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Hermann HesseStichwörter: independent-thought
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