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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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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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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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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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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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