Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
HERMANN HESSEWhen the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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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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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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