If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
HERMANN HESSEIn 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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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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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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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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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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