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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.

Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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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Himself Leadership Men Path World
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
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
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
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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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
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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Life People Reality World Yoga
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
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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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Apperance Home Tree

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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