In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
HERMANN HESSEWisdom 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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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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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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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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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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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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