Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
HERMANN HESSEKnowledge 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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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