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Magic is reborn with each and every one of us. - LS, p. 140

In the past I have helped people here and there who have been sick and disadvantaged.... I did it quite simply with sympathy. - LS, p. 140

We need [magic] to determine inner fate and to find the way that we are unable to conceive. - LS, p. 139

It belongs to the essence of forward movement that what was returns. Only the ignorant can marvel at this. Yet the meaning does not lie in the eternal recurrence of the same, but in the manner of its recurring creation at any given time. - LS, p. 138

A wise man does not want to be a charioteer, for he knows that will and intention certainly attain goals but disturb the becoming of the future. - LS, p. 139

There is no part of the wheel that does not come around again. - LS, p. 138

The task is to give birth to the old in a new time. - LS, p. 138

The way is a highly peculiar standstill of everything that was previously movement, it is a blind waiting, a doubtful listening and groping. One is convinced that one will burst. But the resolution is born from precisely this tension, and it almost always appears where one did not expect it. - LS, p. 138

Outer laws and outer wisdom are eternally insufficient, since there is only one law and one wisdom, namely my daily law, my daily wisdom. The God renews himself each night. - LS, p. 138

The symbol can be neither thought up nor found: it becomes. - LS, p. 138

Salvation is a long road that leads through many gates. These gates are symbols. - LS, p. 137

Our freedom does not lie outside us, but within us. - LS, p. 137

You may ask others provided that you need help and advice. But you should make demands on no one, neither desiring nor expecting anything from anyone except from yourself. - LS, p. 137

You can offer no more precious a sacrificial meal to your God than yourself. - LS, p. 137

You actually still seem to believe that life is better elsewhere. Woe unto you if your neighbor also thinks so. But you may be sure that he does. Someone must begin to stop being childish. - LS, p. 137

The herd animal is not his brother's parasite and pest. Man, you have even forgotten that you too are an animal. - LS, p. 137

You ought to be able to live with yourself, but not at your neighbor's expense. - LS, p. 137

No one rises above himself who has not turned his most dangerous weapon against himself. - LS, p. 136

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