He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
HERMANN HESSE
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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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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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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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