Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
HERMANN HESSEAge is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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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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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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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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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The river is everywhere.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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