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.
HERMANN HESSEIf 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 must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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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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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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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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