The teachers apparently regarded a dead student very differently from a living one.
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a...
People like best what is hard for them to obtain.
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's...
Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,
Nos sentimos tentados a creerlos caprichos nuestros, creaciones propias, vemos vacilar y disolverse la frontera entre nosotros y la naturaleza, y adquirimos conciencia de un estado de ánimo en el que...
Man is a dubious mixture of mind and matter; since the mind unlocks recognition of the eternal to him, while matter pulls him down and binds him to the transitory, he should strive away from the sense...
Jusqu'à présent, tu n'avais jamais pu supporter la danse ni le jazz, ce n'était pas assez profond pour toi et maintenant tu vois que point n'est besoin de les prendre au sérieux pour les trouver délic...
It is not my place to judge another person’s life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse.
I understood it all. I understood Pablo. I understood Mozart, and somewhere behind me I heard his ghastly laughter. I knew that all the hundred thousand pieces of life's game were in my pocket. A glim...
He had loved and, by doing so, had found himself. But most people love in order to lose themselves.
He could have exchanged his name and address with any of his neighbours, and nothing would have been different.
He already knew to feel Atman in the depths of his being, indestructible, one with the universe.
Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life.
En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una misión, pero ésta no podía ser elegida, definida, administrada a voluntad. Era un error desear nuevos dioses, y completamente falso qu...
E mi parlò di un giovane che era innamorato di una stella. In riva al mare tendeva le braccia e adorava la stella, la sognava e le rivolgeva i suoi pensieri. Ma sapeva o credeva di sapere che le stell...
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!
Did you, so he asked him at one time, did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?Vasudeva's face was filled with a bright smile.Yes, Siddhartha, he spoke. It is this what you...