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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Hermann Hesse

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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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Inspirational Life Positive
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
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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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Life People Reality World Yoga
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
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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Equality Expression Truth World
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

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