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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

Hermann Hesse

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
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Himself Leadership Men Path World
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
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
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
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom
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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Beautiful Book Wall
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
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
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
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
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom

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