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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Hermann Hesse

Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
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
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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
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
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
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
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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

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