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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Hermann Hesse

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
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree

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