Hermann Hesse Quotes

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. . . . Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Take time to be quiet.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?