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...
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.
Quería tan sólo intentar vivir aquello que tendía a brotar espontáneamente de mí ¿Porqué había de serme tan difícil?
Quero hoje dizer-te uma coisa, algo que já sei há bastante tempo, e que também tu já sabes, mas talvez ainda não o tenhas dito a ti mesmo. Dir-te-ei agora aquilo que sei a respeito de mim, de ti e do...
Perhaps it is this which keeps you from findingpeace, perhaps it is the many words
Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.
O mundo era belo quando visto desta maneira, tão sem desejos, tão simples, tão inocente.
O alegre e claro espelho de minha alma era muitas vezes embaçado por uma espécie de melancolia mas, por ora, não havia sido seriamente danificado. Ela aparecia de tempos em tempos, durante um dia ou u...
Now what we call bourgeois, when regarded as an element always to be found in humanlife, is nothing else than the search for a balance. It is the striving after a mean between thecountless extremes an...
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...
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...
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 one liked him, no one was on intimate terms with him... he was a good person but took no particular trouble to please anyone.
Mira, Govinda, ésta es una de las cuestiones que he descubierto: la sabiduría no es comunicable. La sabiduría que un erudito intenta comunicar, siempre suena a simpleza.
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
Las flores se marchitanCuando la niebla llegaAsí también la genteY bajan a sus tumbas.La gente es, como las flores,Regresan a su primavera;Y nunca más vuelven a languidecer,Y todo les es perdonado.
La eternidad es un instante.
Korktukları için, soğuktan, yalnızlıktan, ölümden sersemce ve çocuksu birmkorkuya kapıldıkları için insanlar kaçıp birbirlerine sığınıyor, birbirleriyle öpüşüp kucaklaşıyor, yanaklarını birbirine sürt...
I’m only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not tohate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all beings with loveand admiration and great respect.
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...