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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

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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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Difference Dream Inspirational People
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
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

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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