All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
HERMANN HESSEHis life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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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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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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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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Solitude is independence.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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