Somewhere Over the Rainbow #25 With Prats in Our Hearts - Page 105

Being Happy  

             Hermann Hesse

There is no duty in life except the duty of being happy.
It is our only reason for being in this world.
With all our duties, all our morals, all our commandments,
we seldom make one another happy, because these do not make us happy.

A person who is good can only be so when he is happy,
when there is harmony within him, in other words, when he loves.

This has been the rule, the only rule, of this world thus taught Jesus; thus taught Buddha; thus taught Hegel. For each of us the only thing of importance in this world is his own inner self his soul, his capacity for love.

When this is working, we may be eating plain porridge or cake, we may be wearing rags or jewels but the world will be resounding in the clear tones of the soul. It will be a good world, a world going on in proper order.

Biti sretan

U zivotu ne postoji nikakva duznost
osim duznosti: biti sretan.
Samo smo zato na svijetu,
a sa svim duznostima,
svim moralom
i svim zapovijedima
rijetko cinimo jedno drugoga sretnim,
jer i sebe time ne cinimo sretnima.
Ako covjek moze biti dobar,
moze to samo onda
kada je sretan,
kada u sebi ima sklada
dakle kada voli.
To je bilo ucenje,
jedino ucenje na svijetu.
To je rekao Isus,
To je rekao Buda,
To je rekao Hegel.
Za svakoga je na ovome svijetu
jedino vazno
njegovo vlastito najunutarnjije,
njegova dusa,
njegova sposobnost da voli.
Ako je ona u redu,
onda je svejedno
jede li se proso ili kolaci,
nose li se dragulji ili rite;
onda svijet zvuci zajedno s dusom,
onda je dobro.
H.Hese

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