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
HERMANN HESSEThe truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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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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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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