A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
HERMANN HESSEHis 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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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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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