Sublime

En 1911, Hermann Hesse part à Ceylan et voyage en Malaisie, à Singapour, Sumatra, en Inde, pays de sa mère. Il lit les Upanishads, ces textes philosophiques d’enseignement de la religion hindoue, dont Schopenhauer dit : « Cette lecture a été la consolation de ma vie et sera la consolation de ma mort. »

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

There is that in you, which orders your life for you, and which knows why you are doing it. It is good to realize this; there is someone in us who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we do ourselves.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in her landmark masterwork, The Secret Doctrine