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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

Hermann Hesse

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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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Deep Destroy Violence
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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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Life People Reality World Yoga
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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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Book Stars Teaching
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
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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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

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