I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
HERMANN HESSETo 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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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