"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."
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Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse
Today is the birthday of Hermann Hesse, born in Calw, Germany, in 1877.
His trip in 1911 to India and his study of Eastern religions, ancient Hindu and Chinese cultures inspired his novel Siddhartha about the early life of Gautama Buddha.
It is one of the small group of books whose influence has held theroughout the years. It became popular among the counterculture movement of the 1960s, more than 40 years after it was published.