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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Hermann Hesse

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
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
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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
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
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

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