One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.
One can acquire money, fame and distinction, but one cannot create happiness or unhappiness, not for oneself or for others. One can only accept what comes, although one can, to be sure, accept it in e...
On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being a Samana in his h...
Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun again just as I have been standing here a little child, nothing is mine, I...
Now and then I have expressed the opinion that every nation, and every person, would do better, instead of rocking himself to sleep with political catchwords about war-guilt, to ask himself how far hi...
Notre frere a ete conduit par son epreuve au desespoir, et les desespoir est la resultat de toute tentative serieuse pour comprendre et justifier la vie humaine. le desespoir est le resultat de tout e...
Non fa nessuna differenza, salvo un piccolo particolare, che per me ad ogni modo è di massima importanza. Che io senta la vita guizzare in me, sia essa sulla lingua o nelle suole, sia nella voluttà o...
No debemos temer ni creer ilícito nada de lo que nuestra alma desea en nosotros.
My life, I resolved, ought to be a perpetual transcending, a progression from stage to stage; I wanted it to pass through one area after the next, leaving each behind, as music moves on from theme to...
My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the salt of all human things; yet it had laid up riches, riches to b...
Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaf, which is blown and is turning around through the air, and wavers, and tumbles to the ground. But others, a few, are like stars, they go on a fixed course,...
Most men will not swim before they are able to.’ Is not that witty? Naturally, they won’t swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won’t think. They are made for...
Mas o que era isso que querias aprender com doutrinas e com mestres e que eles, que tanto te ensinaram, não te podiam ensinar?E compreendeu: Era o Eu, cujo sentido e natureza eu queria conhecer. Era o...
Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
Kamala le enseñó que no se puede recibir placer sin devolverlo, y que cada gesto, cada caricia, cada contacto, cada mirada y cada parte del cuerpo, por pequeña que sea, tienen su propio misterio, cuyo...
Jamás un hombre ha sido completamente él mismo, aunque la mayoría tenga la firme convicción de serlo algún día, unos entre brumas y otros con perfecta luminosidad, pero cada uno como mejor le sea posi...
It was clear to me that my hosts too were feeling anything but comfortable, that their cheerfulness was forced, whether because they were inhibited by me, or else were out of sorts for some domestic r...
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the...
It was a mystery … whether the solemn, silent man possessed more than human wisdom and stillness of spirit, or whether his mental powers had deserted him.