What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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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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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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