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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

Hermann Hesse

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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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
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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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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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Night Soul World
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

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