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.
HERMANN HESSEIt taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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