The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not t…

Hermann Hesse
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2002). The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel, p.83, Macmillan
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