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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.

Hermann Hesse

There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
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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Flower Heart Try
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
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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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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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Art Life Wisdom
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
I 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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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
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
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