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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Hermann Hesse

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
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
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Himself Leadership Men Path World
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
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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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself

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