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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Hermann Hesse

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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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
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
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
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
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

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