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Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
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And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
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All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.
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We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
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Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
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All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.
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A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
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It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
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Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.
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The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
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a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep children occupied for a given number of years. It has always been so and always will be.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.
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Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.
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