Hermann Hesse Quotes

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.

Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

Love is the whole and more than all.

I turned my head to the sky, to the sun, to the stars, and put a little piece of my love in every star, in the moon, in the sun, and they loved me back. And I became one with the moon and the sun and the stars, and my love kept growing and growing. And I put a little piece of my love in every human, and I became one with the whole of humanity. Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

Sufi music talks about connecting people. It talks about connecting hearts and connecting man with God. Everything that talks about connection is Sufi.