Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
HERMANN HESSEThere 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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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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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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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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