Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
HERMANN HESSEIt 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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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The river is everywhere.
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