I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
HERMANN HESSEI 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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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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