people go but how they left always stays
Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors
Miguel Serrano, C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Book of Two Friendships
The moon likes secrets. And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
Real footage of me collecting every piece of content about herman hesse including fics, jokes and art like they're cool rocks you find while walking down the street
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand—relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
Osho
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Pleasure is a freedom song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not their fruit
Khalil gibran