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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

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
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
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
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Knowledge 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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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Book Stars Teaching
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait

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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