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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

Hermann Hesse

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
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
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

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