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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
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
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
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
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy

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