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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.

Hermann Hesse

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
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
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
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
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
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
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
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon

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