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

Hermann Hesse

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
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
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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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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Inspirational Life Positive
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom

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