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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Hermann Hesse

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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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Communication Love Relationship
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People

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