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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.

Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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
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
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
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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Book Stars Teaching
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
The 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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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
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
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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

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