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All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.
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But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.
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For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.
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For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.
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For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.
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He who is wise tries to harmonise the wishes that seek for self-gratification with the wish for the social good, and only thus can he realise his higher self.
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It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.
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It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.
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Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.
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Only love is motion and rest in one.
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Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
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The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.
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The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.
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This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.
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We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.