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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Hermann Hesse

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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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Flower Heart Try
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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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Beautiful Book Wall
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men

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