Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
HERMANN HESSEI 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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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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 must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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