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.
HERMANN HESSEFaith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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