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I cling to everything that obstructs my way to myself. - LS, p. 136

Some commit a crime to pick a quarrel with themselves. - LS, p. 136

He would rather devise any trick to help him escape, since nothing matches the torment of one's own way. - LS, p. 136

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It is unclear how great one's humility must be to take it upon oneself to live one's own life. The disgust of whoever wants to enter into his own life can hardly be measured. - LS, p. 136

Let it rain, let the wind blow, let the waters flow and the fire burn. Let each things have its development, let becoming have its day. - LS, p.136

Why can't you wait? Why should your impatience destroy the highest opus? - LS, p. 134

Great is the power of the way. In it Heaven and Hell grow together, and in it the power of the Below and the power of the Above unite. - LS, p. 130

The power of the way is so great that it carries away others and ignites them. You do not know how this happens: hence it is best you call this effect magical. - LS, p. 130, n.243

Who should accomplish your deeds? Who should carry your virtues and your vices? - LS, p. 130

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you. - LS, p. 130

Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. - LS, p. 130

There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. - LS, p. 130

The tension of the future is unbearable in us. It must break through narrow cracks, it must force new ways. You want to cast off the burden, you want to escape the inescapable. - LS, p. 130

Submit to the riddles and the thoroughly incomprehensible. There are dizzying bridges over the eternally deep abyss. - LS, p. 128

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