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"The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being."

"More focus has been placed on these subjects through human history than on anything else-mystery and mysticism, God, imagination, intuition, the nature of relationships, human purpose, happiness and salvation."

"What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?"

"Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing."

"The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence."

"Unborn eternity does not die, existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence."

"You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream."

"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?"

"Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death."

"We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all."
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"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."

"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

"What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"
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