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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
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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Night Soul World
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity

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