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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

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
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
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
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Book Stars Teaching
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
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
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

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