Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid matter, this repetition, this running around in a fateful circle?
Two thirds of my countrymen read this kind of newspaper, read things written in this tone every morning and every night, are every day worked up and admonished and incited, and robbed of their peace o...
To be sure, I was outwardly secured. I had no fear of people; my schoolmates had found that out, too, and showed me a secret respect that often made me smile. Whenever I wished, I could see through mo...
Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men and hateful deeds, a person has to think and sorrow so much! Back there it is so difficult and so d...
Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good—death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly.
The realms of day and night. Two different worlds coming from two opposite poles mingled during this time.
The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our present-day life as something far more than horrible, far more than barbarous. Every...
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.
Siddhartha listened. He was now nothing but a listener, completely concentrated on listening, completely empty, he felt, that he had now finished learning to listen. Often before, he had heard all thi...
Sansara,
Samoća je neovisnost, nju sam priželjkivao i godinama je nastojao izboriti. Bila je hladna, oh da, ali je bila i tiha, divno tiha i velika nalik na hladnu tihu prostoriju u kojoj se vrte zvijezde.
Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.
Perhaps, people of our kind can't love. The childlike people can; that's their secret.
Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?
Only when I found myself sitting in front of you did I realize that my wish was only half fulfilled and that my sole aim was to sit next to you.
Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.
Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it for too long.
Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggles b...
No soy un hombre que sabe. He sido un hombre que busca y lo soy aún, pero no busco ya en las estrellas ni en los libros: comienzo a escuchar las enseñanzas que mi sangre murmura en mí.