Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the mysterious nature of passion and the painful consequences it can have on those who love deeply.
Hermann Hesse's quote reveals the complexities of love and passion, highlighting how deeply felt emotions can sometimes lead to suffering. It suggests that pure and deserving individuals often find themselves loving others who may not have their best interests at heart, illustrating the tragic irony of love's power to bind us to people who can cause us harm.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the nature of love in an emotional support group.
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.
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged β to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation.
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out
I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
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