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.
HERMANN HESSEEvery phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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