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 HESSEIf 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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Every 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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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