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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.

Hermann Hesse

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
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
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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Himself Leadership Men Path World
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness 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
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering

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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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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