Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN HESSEThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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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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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Solitude is independence.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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