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.
HERMANN HESSEBeauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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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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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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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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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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The river is everywhere.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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