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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.

Hermann Hesse

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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
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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Equality Expression Truth World
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.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
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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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth

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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