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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

Hermann Hesse

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
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love 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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
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
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
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
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

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