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

Hermann Hesse

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
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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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
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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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
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
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
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
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
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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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall

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

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