The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
HERMANN HESSEThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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