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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Age 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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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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Night Soul World
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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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Art Life Wisdom
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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
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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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
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
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
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

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