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...
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance polic...
Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn from doctrines and teachers, and what is it that they—who taught you so much—were unable to teach y...
They were … neither beautiful nor ugly[.]
There was nothing to charm or tempt me. Everything was old, withered, grey, limp and spent, and stank of staleness and decay. Dear God, how was it possible? How had I, with the wings of youth and poet...
The opposite of every truth is just as true.
Once he traveled to a village to purchase a large rice harvest, but when he arrived the rice had already been sold to another tradesman. Nevertheless, Siddhartha remained in this village for several d...
Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.
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...
La eternidad es un instante.
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be a...
Ich bin ein Stern am Firmament,der die Welt betrachtet, die Welt verachtetund in der eignen Glut verbrennt.Ich bin das Meer, das nächtens stürmt,das klagende Meer, das opferschwerzu alten Sünden neu t...
I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering, I want my soul to be a wandering thing, able to move back into a hundred forms, I want to dream my...
I already thought on that first evening of our meeting how glorious it would be to spend one's whole life regarded by those beautiful, candid eyes, and how it would then be impossible ever to think or...
But whereas we, in our conception, represented the will of nature to renew itself, to individualize and march forward, the others lived in the desire for the perpetuation of things as they are. For th...
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.
We are created and resurrected with our dreams.