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There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Hermann Hesse

His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
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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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
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
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
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
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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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Communication Love Relationship
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
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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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
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
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength

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