The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
HERMANN HESSEWe have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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