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Title: The self realization
Review: This is for Tom. Your comments are wonderful and as with you I read this the first time when I was 19 (1969) and again quite a few times over the years and have passed it on to many in my own travels. Your comments concerning the self self self is understandable but think that you missed the most important aspect in all of that which is that you have a hard time in life finding all those other things you mentioned if you cannot find and know yourself. To me this is the meat of Hesse's understanding (along with the idea of all searches in all religions, in which he was aghast that Budhism even became a religion)of first knowing yourself and then find how it fits into the world around you.My 2 cents
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