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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.

Hermann Hesse

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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Night Soul World
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
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
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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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Communication Love Relationship
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

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