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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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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Equality Expression Truth World
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth

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