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

Hermann Hesse

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
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World

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