What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
There is nothing to opinions, theymay be beautiful or ugly, smart or foolish, everyone can support them ordiscard them. But the teachings, you’ve heard from me, are no opinion,and their goal is not to...
Lorsque enfin il se sentit absolument libre, Harry s'aperçut soudain que sa liberté était une mort, qu'il était resté seul, que le monde le laissait lugubrement tranquille, qu'il ne se souciait plus d...
In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.
Ich war ein Suchender und bin es noch, aber ich suche nicht mehr auf den Sternen und in den Büchern, ich beginne die Lehren zu hören, die mein Blut in mir rauscht
I thought of nothing but her. I expected everything from her. I was ready to lay everything at her feet. I was not in the least in love with her. Yet I had only to imagine that she might fail to keep...
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in h...
و كما لو كنت في حلم فقد استسلمت لصوته و تأثيره. بدا كما لو أن صوته يصدر عن أعماقي. و كان بعرف كل شيء. فهل كان يعرف كل شيء بشكل أفضل و أكثر وضوحاً مما أعرف أنا؟؟
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wond...
When someone is searching, said Siddhartha, then it might easilyhappen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searchesfor, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his...
The world... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment...
The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the es...
Sempre foi e será assim: o tempo e o mundo, o dinheiro e o poder pertencem aos mesquinhos e superficiais, e nada coube aos outros, aos verdadeiros homens, nada a não ser a morte.
Lernen Sie ernst nehmen, was des Ernstnehmens wert ist, und lachen über das andre!
Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul, if you are ever to find pea...
I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving...
Bir kimse arıyorsa, gözü aradığı şeyden başkasını görmez çokluk, bir türlü bulmasını beceremez, dışarıdan hiçbir şeyi alıp kendi içine aktaramaz, çünkü aklı fikri aradığı şeydedir hep, çünkü bir amacı...
At Night on the High SeasAt night, when the sea cradles meAnd the pale star gleamLies down on its broad waves,Then I free myself whollyFrom all activity and all the loveAnd stand silent and breathe pu...
All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and sh...