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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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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Deep Destroy Violence
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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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Afraid People Philosophy
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering

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