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

Hermann Hesse

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
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
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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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
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
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth

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

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