COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

8/28/2016

HermannHesse says it best …


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.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
The truth is lived, not taught.
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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.



Hermann Hesse/Quotes


“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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