All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within 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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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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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