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.
HERMANN HESSEPassion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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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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Every experience has its element of magic.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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 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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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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