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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Hermann Hesse

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Himself Leadership Men Path World
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
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
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
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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Evil Real Time
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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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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Flower Heart Try
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

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