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!
HERMANN HESSELove must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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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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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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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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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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