Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
HERMANN HESSEAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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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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