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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Hermann Hesse

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
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
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
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth

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