Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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