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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Hermann Hesse

Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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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Apperance Home Tree
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
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
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

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