Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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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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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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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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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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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.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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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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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Solitude is independence.
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