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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.

Hermann Hesse

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
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
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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
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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Himself Leadership Men Path World
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself

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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