A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSEThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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