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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.

Hermann Hesse

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.
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Evil Real Time
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
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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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga

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