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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Hermann Hesse

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
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
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
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
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
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
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time

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