The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEWhen 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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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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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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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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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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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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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