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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Hermann Hesse

It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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 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
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

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