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
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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