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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

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
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
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
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
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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Encouragement Hurt Love
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy

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