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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

Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
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
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
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
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth

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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