Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate so… - Hermann Hesse

I remember a select little group with which we traveled and camped together for some days ; this group had undertaken to liberate some captive League brothers and the Princess Isabella from the hands of the Moors. It was said that they were in possession of Hugo’s horn, and among them were my friends the poet Lauscher and the artists Klingsor and Paul Klee ; they spoke of nothing else but Africa and the captured princess, and their Bible was the book of the deeds of Don Quixote, in whose honor they thought of making their way across Spain. It was very pleasant whenever we met one of these groups, to attend their feasts and devotions and to invite them to ours, to hear about their deeds and plans, to bless and know them on parting ; they went their way, we went ours. p. 20

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. p.83