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To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
– Hermann Hesse

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  1. A lot can happen in a heartbeat though. Even a really fast one. Lives crumble in a heartbeat. Promises are lost in a heartbeat. – Willow Madison
  2. The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. – Hermann Hesse
  3. I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do. – Debasish Mridha
  4. 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. – Hermann Hesse
  5. 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. – Hermann Hesse
  6. To deal with history [life] means to abandon one’s self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task. – Hermann Hesse
  7. Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. – Hermann Hesse
  8. At some magical instant you realize a deep Harmony with the universe. Enlightenment is that harmony. – Amit Ray
  9. Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse
  10. …your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited. – Hermann Hesse
  11. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. – Hermann Hesse
  12. …and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. – Hermann Hesse
  13. I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art. – Hermann Hesse
  14. . . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! – Hermann Hesse
  15. Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse
  16. You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. – Hermann Hesse
  17. But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest – Hermann Hesse
  18. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-”without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. – Hermann Hesse
  19. Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself. – Hermann Hesse
  20. Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. – Hermann Hesse
  21. He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. – Hermann Hesse
  22. Be aware of too much wisdom! – Hermann Hesse
  23. Most men will not swim before they are able to. – Hermann Hesse
  24. Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it. – Hermann Hesse
  25. In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. – Hermann Hesse
  26. I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? – Hermann Hesse
  27. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. – Hermann Hesse
  28. Fate and character are different names for the same idea. – Hermann Hesse
  29. Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act. – Hermann Hesse
  30. Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child. – Hermann Hesse
  31. Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? – Hermann Hesse
  32. Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. – Hermann Hesse
  33. Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. – Hermann Hesse
  34. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. – Hermann Hesse
  35. Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. – Hermann Hesse
  36. Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it. – Hermann Hesse
  37. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. – Hermann Hesse
  38. 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. – Hermann Hesse
  39. Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution. – Debasish Mridha
  40. The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. – Corrie ten Boom

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