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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

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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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
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.
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Alone Friendship Travel 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
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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Equality Expression Truth 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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