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

Hermann Hesse

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
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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Himself Leadership Men Path World
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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
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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Evil Real Time

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