We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
HERMANN HESSETheory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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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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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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