Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too?
Words are not good for the secret meaning; everything always becomes a little bit different the moment one speaks it aloud, a bit falsified, a bit foolish—yes, and this too is also very good and pleas...
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
Why was it, do you think, I was able to recognise you and understand you?Why, Hermine? Tell me!Because it's the same for me as you because I am alone exactly as you are, because I'm as little fond of...
When you throw a rock into the water, it will speed on the fastest course to the bottom of the water. This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal, a resolution. Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he...
When someone who badly needs something finds it, it isn’t an accident that brings it his way, but he himself, his own desire and necessity lead him to it.
What you loved and what you strove for, What you dreamed and what you lived through, Do you know if it was joy or suffering?
We might well look for the day when, with wires or without, with or without the disturbance of other sounds, we should hear King Solomon speaking, or Walter von der Vogelweide. And all this, I said, j...
Toda especie humana tiene sus caracteres, sus sellos, cada una tiene sus virtudes y sus vicios, cada una, su pecado mortal.
To stiffen into stone, to persevere!We long forever for the right to stay.But all that stays with us is fear,And we shall never rest upon our way.
Though he was near perfection and was bearing his final wound, it still seemed to him as if those childlike people were his brothers, their vanities, desires for possession, and ridiculous aspects wer...
This change did not bring me into the community of the others, did not make me closer to anyone, but actually made me even lonelier. My reformation seemed to point in the direction ofDemian, but even...
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness,...
There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which I enjoyed with my parents, my childish affections and carefree, irresponsible exis...
There are few people who know how to listen and I have not met anybody who can do so like you.
Then the Yogi suddenly fell silent, and when I looked puzzled he shrugged and said: ‘Don’t you see yourself where the fault lies?’ But I could not see it. At this point he recapitulated with astonishi...
The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow pathtowards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment
The things we see, Pistorius said quietly, are the same things that are in us. The only reality is the one we have in us.
The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And at several times he suddenly became scared on account of such thoughts and wished that...
The sinner, which I am and which you are, is a sinner, but in times to come he will be Brahma again, he will reach the Nirvana, will be Buddha—and now see: these 'times to come' are a deception, are o...