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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.

Hermann Hesse

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
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
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
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

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