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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.

Hermann Hesse

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
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 river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
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
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Equality Expression Truth World

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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