The river is everywhere.
HERMANN HESSEAnd 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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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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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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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