"And despite all the pain, I remain in love with the crazy world," says one of Hesse's poems. This writer remained in love with existence throughout his life, despite all crises. He understood crises as opportunities for growth, and he succeeded in conveying this positive outlook on life to his readers. This reader's book gathers a characteristic selection of such texts and presents its author as a pioneer of individual life design, who takes each person seriously, considers them unique, important, and remarkable, as a "point where the phenomena of the world intersect, only once and never again.".