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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

Hermann Hesse

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
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
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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Night Soul World
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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Home Reach
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice

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