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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.

Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
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
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
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
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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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Inspirational Life Positive

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