Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEYou 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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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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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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The river is everywhere.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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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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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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