Every experience has its element of magic.
HERMANN HESSEPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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 truth is lived, not taught.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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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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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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