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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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Literature Seek Value
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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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Life People Reality World Yoga
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
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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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
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
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering

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