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.
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.
madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Solitude is independence.
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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.
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
There is a miracle in every new beginning
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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