Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
HERMANN HESSEMadness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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The river is everywhere.
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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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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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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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Your soul is the whole world.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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