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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.

Hermann Hesse

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
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
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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!
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Afraid People Philosophy
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
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
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
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
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
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
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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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
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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Deep Destroy Violence
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
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Inspirational Life Positive
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
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
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands

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