Sublime

Hermann Hesse s’était fait naturaliser suisse dès 1924. Au cours des quelque quarante années qui suivirent, il quitta de moins en moins Montagnola. À sa porte venaient parfois frapper des pèlerins qui tantôt s’appelaient Thomas Mann ou André Gide, et qui tantôt étaient de jeunes lecteurs inconnus. C’est à Montagnola que Hesse devait s’éteindre le 9

"This here," he said playing with it, "is a stone, and will, after a certain time, perhaps turn into soil, and will turn from soil into a plant or animal or human being. In the past, I would have said: This stone is just a stone, it is worthless, it belongs to the world of the Maja; but because it might be able to become also a human

Too much knowledge had been holding him back, too many holy verses, sacrificial rules, self-castigation, and striving for this goal! He had always been full of arrogance, the most intelligent, the most zealous worker, one step ahead of the others, the knowing and spiritual one, the priest or the wise one. His self had retreated into this arrogance,

In this sense, then, we have endeavored to obtain information on the life of Joseph Knecht, Master of the Glass Bead Game, and especially to collect everything written by himself.

Il est à noter qu’à la fin, le fils de Siddhartha fuit la cabane de son père comme Siddhartha lui-même s’était éloigné de la maison paternelle : chacun ne peut trouver que seul sa voie. Hesse ne cessera de le répéter.

And—thus is my thought, oh exalted one,—nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! You will not be able to convey and say to anybody, oh venerable one, in words and through teachings what has happened to you in the hour of enlightenment!

He had learned this one thing by the river: how to wait, how to have patience, how to listen attentively.

My dear, have you entirely forgotten that story, that story containing so many lessons, that story about Siddhartha, a Brahman's son, which you once told me here on this very spot? Who has kept the Samana Siddhartha safe from Sansara, from sin, from greed, from foolishness? Were his father's religious devotion, his teachers warnings, his own knowle

He looked upon people differently than he had before. He was less shrewd, less proud, and instead was warmer, more curious, and more engaging. When he ferried ordinary travelers (childlike people, businessmen, warriors, or women), they did not seem as alien to him as they once had. He understood them and shared their lives, which were not guided by