Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
HERMANN HESSETo achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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