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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
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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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
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
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
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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Book Stars Teaching
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

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