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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.

Hermann Hesse

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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
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
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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
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
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
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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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth

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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