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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.

Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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
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
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World

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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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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