Poet, philosopher, mystic and civil engineer, Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) only lived 28 years but in that short time still managed to condense his insight and poetic wisdom influencing Emerson, Hermann Hesse, Rilke, C.S. Lewis, Borges, and through George MacDonald, Tolkien, Mark Twain, GK Chesterton, Madeleine L'Engle. the Inklings, and the entire fantasy genre in literature.
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“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”
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43. No Effort, No Trace
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“Educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”
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45. Complete Perfection
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“Everything that we experience is a communication… the revelation of spirit.”
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16. Returning to the Root, Meditation
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“Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.”
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33. Know Yourself
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“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.”
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80. A Golden Age
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“Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.”
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54. Planting Well
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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
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56. One with the Dust
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“The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people.”
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41. Distilled Life
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“The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.”
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39. Oneness
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“We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.”
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49. No Set Mind
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“We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit.”
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80. A Golden Age
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“Whoever is rich in spirit makes much of his life. Every acquaintance, every incident… an endless series—the beginning of an endless novel.”
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51. Mysterious Goodness
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