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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Hermann Hesse

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
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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
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 truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
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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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation

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