A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
HERMANN HESSELove 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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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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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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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