He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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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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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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