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Every experience has its element of magic.

Hermann Hesse

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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
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
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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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Apperance Home Tree
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World

Every experience has its element of magic.

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