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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

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
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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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
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
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
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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Apperance Home Tree
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational

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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