To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
HERMANN HESSEThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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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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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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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 true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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