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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Hermann Hesse

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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.
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Night Soul World
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
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
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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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Difference Dream Inspirational People
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

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