I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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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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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.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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