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.
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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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