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

Hermann Hesse

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself

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