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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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 river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
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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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
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
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
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

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