Goldmund Quotes

Time is a conscientious Debunker. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love is the jewel of mankind. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A magic came out of your smile
Gold thread of gold thread
Stars illuminating the sky
There
Where in the mountain stream
Healing water
Tears of ice as a gift to me ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The blade of grass in the wind, he weighs himself in pure naturalness. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Are you willing to nourish your heart with love; then your selfishness will starve to death. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering; everything else is humbug. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

With the power of love; our two hearts can enlighten the whole world. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Chaos leads to brilliance. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A victory over yourself is a real victory. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Elegance; it lacks the intellect -
he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Natural elegance inspires the mind. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Look to it that your heart will never become emotionally cold. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I've fallen into your life, like a red ROSE from another world. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If your eyes dwell in your heart; then your inner voice will be your congenial Guide. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Narziss was dark and thin of face, and Goldmund open and radiant as a flower. Narziss was a thinker and anatomiser, Goldmund a dreamer and a child. Yet things common to both could bridge these differences. Both were knightly and delicate; both set apart by visible signs from their fellows, since both had received the particular admonishment of fate. ~ Hermann Hesse

Change the way of looking at things and your soul will get a beautiful shine. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

War is the plague of mankind; I am and remain in solidarity with eternal peace. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

JESUS

Woke up in a white veil
The fog sets the silence in my hands
I think back to my thoughts
About the people
I'm thinking
With increasing pain in my head
People who have condemned me
Dark hour
in
the hours
And I would now complain quietly
But there is no fury
And there is no sadness
The time has melted away like water in the sea
Tears
of
the women
They are covered with clouds
Let my heart bleed to death
Among the thorns
at
last
There is no sun in the zenith ~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love is the color of peace. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Night of the Broken Glass
dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust
Dark is the night
I hear your heartbeat
In the room there is no light
Fire in the night
I hear them marching
Your boots are brown
Glass in my thoughts
Hear the fear in this night
Shrill screams shattered
I do not hear your heartbeat
Why is the light so bright in the room ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Narcissus looked at him gravely: I take you seriously when you are Goldmund. But you're not always Goldmund. I wish nothing more than to see you become Goldmund through and through. You are not a scholar, you are not a monk - scholars and monks can have a coarser grain. You think you're not learned or logical or pious enough for me. On the contrary, you are not enough yourself. ~ Hermann Hesse

The beauty of the nature; it gives mankind splendour and glory. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Good deeds are the richest harvest of our human being. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Autumn breathes in shades of white; cloth of mist dressed fields comfortable. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love met with respect and grand style Love - A flirtation with true lovers of love had taken his salvific beginning. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love and Freedom of Thoughts is a fast-acting antidote against the misanthropic cold sword of mass surveillance. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Honesty blinds every lie. ~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Intolerance is a failed master of non-existent reason. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

People walk arm in arm; when icy cold shows them the way. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the difference between us, the difference between men akin to their father and those who take their destiny from a woman; the difference between spirit and intellect. ~ Hermann Hesse

I was with you and I have left traces in your heart; but the wind did not hear our voices. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Only love can purify your soul. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Falling into everlasting happiness is annoying. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Finding themselves in the truth is worth several attempts. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

My business is to forgive others. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Holding the moon in your hands, velvety, your heart beats on my lips. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

My fragrant rose, in the Realm of the Senses, I can feel your shadow. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love is not far away,
Love is just a heartbeat from you. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love in the heart tingles the stomach -
Kissing with butterfly wings on the lips -
Seen star for star, millions of stars. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

In the end; your heart will be pure. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I do not know who I am, said the wise man, and went his way of knowledge unto the end of days. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Close to your breath, I have embraced the world. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Christmas; magnificent snowflakes snowing in your hope. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Narcissus's thoughts were far more occupied with Goldmund than Goldmund imagined. He wanted the bright boy as a friend. He sensed in him his opposite, his complement; he would have liked to adopt, lead, enlighten, strengthen, and bring him to bloom. But he held himself back, for many reasons, almost all of them conscious. Most of all, he felt tied and hemmed in by his distaste for teachers or monks who, all too frequently, fell in love with a pupil or a novice. Often enough, he had felt with repulsion the desiring eyes of older men upon him, had met their enticements and cajoleries with wordless rebuttal. He understood them better now that he knew the temptation to love the charming boy, to make him laugh, to run a caressing hand through his blond hair. But he would never do that, never. ~ Hermann Hesse

I always believe in a better world, forever. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Charity begins at your doorstep; do not forget to open your heart. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

How mean and foolish are the living, with their never-ending terrors and curiosities, the puny effort of their lives, when faced with the quiet, kingly dead. ~ Hermann Hesse

Written for the Homeless
My soul does not find mercy -
Somewhere on the bank of oblivion;
There,
Where hunger freezes my bones to death. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The crown of love is mercy. ~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

No wisdom of the world teaches us more than true love can teach us. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Racial injustice is a dangerous relic of the darkest days of history. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love is the first wisdom in life. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A thoroughly honest man is a rare jewel in the shallow stream of meaningless pebbles. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

One day when I die, I will take your tears in me; as provision for my long journey to the gods. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If love disappear forever, a veil of sadness, falls over the valley of dried tears. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A noble character loves things unadulterated. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Go into the silence of your heart; only in silence you can hear your breath. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Expectations are illusions;
Pretense they hang on thin threads. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Self-aggrandizement and lust for power, the maelstrom of baser instincts - disfigured people. ~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

True friends give a sense of security; accompanied by true friends, you need no longer play a role in your life. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

World Poetry Day, 21 March
I caress your skin -
Your breath is flowing;
Peace in the things of life. ~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Sublime delicacy of rose; how wonderful your heart, smells of our love. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

It was shameless how life made fun of one; it was a joke, a cause for weeping! Either one lived and let one's senses play, drank full at the primitive mother's breast - which brought great bliss but was no protection against death; then one lived like a mushroom in the forest, colorful today and rotten tomorrow. Or else one put up a defense, imprisoned oneself for work and tried to build a monument to the fleeting passage of life - then one renounced life, was nothing but a tool; one enlisted in the service of that which endured, but one dried up in the process and lost one's freedom, scope, lust for life...
Ach, life made sense only if one achieved both, only if it was not split by this brittle alternative! To create, without sacrificing one's senses for it. To live, without renouncing the mobility of creating. Was that impossible? ~ Hermann Hesse

As long as we love happiness will be our constant companion. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Dark night lay on my eyes, like a veil of black cloves - dust on my feet, at the beginning of the path of knowledge.
Tracer from an invisible hand, a rainbow, fell in my thoughts - I encountered the truth; and truth shall be my light until the end of days. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

In case of doubt, do not be content with a single enemy, take two. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

That said the conspirators:Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

While one is singing one does not think about whether of not the singing is useful. One simply sings. ~ Hermann Hesse

Factitiousness of society freezes the stars. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If you embrace your dreams gently, you'll wake up in the morning as a satisfied human child. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Those wildly cheer thee; they will have characterless betray you in the hour of truth. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

In the sky, far above - Where my words - Written in the Clouds; I've borrowed from the sun, A gentle smile. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The true essence of beauty lies in the mysterious secret. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Only the balance of the scale, bedded love in the shells, teaches us to find the inner self. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love is incomparable, love is unique - be a part of it. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

In dark moments of our existence; Life teaches us prudence. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

True love begins with an innocent smile. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Shape of eternal light, by my divine existence, it should shine in your decent thoughts. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love has no expiration date; if your are willing, she will accompany you until your last day. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Trust in your shadow; and you will find answers to all your questions. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Sometimes we believe in miracles, and stars fall from the sky, as if the moon had poured his tears in gold. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

And was it not perhaps more childlike and human to lead a Goldmund-life, more courageous, more noble perhaps in the end to abandon oneself to the cruel stream of reality, to chaos, to commit sins and accept their bitter consequences rather than live a clean life with washed hands outside the world, laying out a lonely harmonious thought-garden, strolling sinlessly among one's sheltered flower beds. Perhaps it was harder, braver and nobler to wander through forests and along the highways with torn shoes, to suffer sun and rain, hunger and need, to play with the joys of the senses and pay for them with suffering.
At any rate, Goldmund had shown him that a man destined for high things can dip into the lowest depths of the bloody, drunken chaos of life, and soil himself with much dust and blood, without becoming small and common, without killing the divine spark within himself, that he can err through the thickest darkness without extinguishing the divine light and the creative force inside the shrine of his soul. ~ Hermann Hesse

Heart of lovers
Littered with stars
In glittering moons
Mirrored their lips ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Surround yourself with a bunch of ,outstanding, idiots and you will have a lot of fun. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The truth; injected subcutaneously leaves distinctive marks on the root of the problem. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Your eyes are my stars of happiness. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Sunlight of love on your lips;
& the Nightingale has fallen into silence. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Sunrise gave birth to our love. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The unadulteratedness makes a person beautiful. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Unalloyed Joy of Life has become a trademark; starting from the day, when the world economy has come to a standstill. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Love is to feel your breath. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Open your heart, love will find you. Open your eyes, you'll see love. Open your mouth and you'll speak full of love.
– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

For a breathtaking moment;
I spoke the language of the fleeing leaves
When the sky is shrouded in darkness
Of incoming Ravens in black plumage. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Human rights; they are in the hands of mankind and nowhere else. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

In total seclusion, enlightening, I found the origin of my being. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

November; Crows are approaching - Wounded leaves fall to the ground. ~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked to most essential thing - mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery... It is mystery I love and pursue. ~ Hermann Hesse

Be still my love, be still
and wait with patience
Rain will wet your skin
Be still my love, be still
and wait with insight
Wind will dry your face
Be still my love, be still
Only the sun can show you the way ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann