It has been a continual consolation to me and a justification for all life that there is music in the world
Human life, even upon a small stage, always offers an amusing drama and one well worth consideration.
En él no corrían el hombre y el lobo paralelamente, y mucho menos se prestaban mutua ayuda, sino que estaban en odio constante y mortal, y cada uno vivía exclusivamente para martirio del otro, y cuand...
Content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied!
All sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life.
A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
You're free this evening, Barbele. You just don't want to come.
You take the old Goethe much too seriously, my young friend. You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them an injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken serio...
You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It is a legend about how such things as war and death and despair were common in our country at...
You had an image of life inside you, a belief or an ideal, that you were ready to do good deeds, to suffer, and to sacrifice – and by degrees you noticed that the world had no need of your good deeds,...
You are surprised that I should be unhappy when I can dance and am so sure of myself in the superficial things of life. And I, my friend, am surprised that you are so disillusioned with life when you...
You are clever, O Samana, said the Illustrious One, you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.
Yes, one must find one's dream, then the path becomes easy. But no dream lasts forever, each one is replaced by a new one, and you shouldn't try to hold onto any of them
Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.
Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too? And could you in any way protect your son from Sansara? How could you? By means...
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
When Siddhartha left the grove, where the Buddha, the perfected one, stayed behind, where Govinda stayed behind, then he felt that in this grove his past life also stayed behind and parted from him. H...
What father, what teacher, was able to protect him from living life himself, soiling himself with life, accumulating guilt, drinking the bitter drink, finding his own path?
Vea: La mayor parte de los hombres no quieren nadar antes de saber. ¿No es esto espiritual? ¡No quieren nadar, naturalmente! Han nacido para la tierra, no, para el agua. Y, naturalmente, no quieren pe...
Todos los hombres están prontos a hacer lo increíble cuando sus ideales peligran; pero cuando se anuncia un nuevo ideal, un nuevo impulso de crecimiento, inquietante y quizá peligroso, todos hurtan el...