Richard G. Petty, MD

Experiencing and Forgetting

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“Next to the hunger to experience a thing, men have no stronger hunger than to forget.”

–Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet and, in 1946, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1877-1962)

Journey to the East   

Other Ways of Knowing

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“I will be mindful of the first principle of our great period, never to rely on and let myself be disconcerted by reason, always to know that faith is stronger than so-called reality.”

–Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet and, in 1946, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1877-1962)

Journey to the East

Faith in Meaning and Necessity

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“We had within us something stronger than reality or probability and that was faith in the meaning and necessity of our action.”  

–Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet and, in 1946, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1877-1962)

“The Journey to the East” (Hermann Hesse)

Faith, Reason and Reality

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“I will be mindful of the first principle of our great period, never to rely on and let myself be disconcerted by reason, always to know that faith is stronger than so-called reality.”

–Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet and, in 1946, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1877-1962)   


“The Journey to the East” (Hermann Hesse)

Not Just a Goal, But Also Content

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“Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.”

–Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet and, in 1946, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1877-1962)


“Beneath the Wheel” (Hermann Hesse)

What If Time Is Not Real?

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“If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.”

–Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet and, in 1946, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1877-1962)   

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