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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.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
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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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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

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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