The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a man consists of a multitude of souls, of numerous selves. The separation of the unity of...
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
Slowly the disease of the soul, which rich people have, grabbed holdof him.
Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the h...
RainSoft rain, summer rainWhispers from bushes, whispers from trees.Oh, how lovely and full of blessingTo dream and be satisfied.I was so long in the outer brightness,I am not used to this upheaval:Be...
Pjesnik čiji nas stihovi ushićuju možda je bio tužan usamljenik a glazbenik neki sjetan sanjar, ali i tada njegovo djelo dijeli vedrinu bogova i zvijezda. Ono što nam umjetnik daje, to više nije njego...
No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every g...
No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds.
Look, he said, I am superior to you only in one point: I’m awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost un...
Like an attack this melancholy comes from time to time. I don't know at what intervals, and slowly covers my sky with clouds. It begins with an unrest in the heart, with a premonition of anxiety, prob...
Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfect...
Jābrīnās, ko tik visu cilvēks nenorij! Laikam gan minūtes desmit es lasīju avīzi, ar redzes starpniecību ielaizdams sevī kāda bezatbildīga cilvēka domas — tāda, kurš apviļā un apsiekalo citu teikto,...
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in...
I became unhappy because I saw nothing but the usual tribulations, trade, progress, and improvements on the earth.
Había amado y, a través del amor, se había encontrado a sí mismo. La mayoría ama para perderse.
Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arm...
First you must climb the Mountain of Knowledge, then you must perform some deeds, and finally you must find love and become happy.
El que quiere nacer, tiene que romper un mundo.
Disclosing his wound to his listener was the same as bathing it in the river, until it became cool and one with the river.
Dies Wasser lief und lief, immerzu lief es, und war doch immer da, war immer und allezeit dasselbe und doch jeden Augenblick neu!