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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.

Hermann Hesse

The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
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
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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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Life People Reality World Yoga
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path 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
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
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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Demand Love Strength Strong
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom

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