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.
HERMANN HESSEAll higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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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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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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