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Solitude is independence.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
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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Home Reach
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
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
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom

Solitude is independence.

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