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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

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
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching 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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
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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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
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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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree

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

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