Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSEThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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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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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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