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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Hermann Hesse

Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
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
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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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
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
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
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

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