Transcending Thought

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot yet be given you because you would not yet be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Quotes by Hermann Hesse

443

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

672

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

607

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.

Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.