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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.

Hermann Hesse

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality

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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