Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
HERMANN HESSESome of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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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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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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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