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

Hermann Hesse

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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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
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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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