Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
HERMANN HESSEWhat you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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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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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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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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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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 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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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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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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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