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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 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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
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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Equality Expression Truth World
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
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
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 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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom

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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