The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
HERMANN HESSEA 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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Solitude is independence.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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