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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
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
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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Encouragement Hurt Love
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
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

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