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.
HERMANN HESSEThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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 achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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