Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in...
Soledad era independencia, yo me la había deseado y la había conseguido al cabo de largos años. Era fría, es cierto, pero también era tranquila, maravillosamente tranquila y grande, como el tranquilo...
Smiling, Siddhartha felt happiness at the friendship and friendliness of the ferryman. He is like Govinda, he thought, smiling. All the people I meet upon my way are like Govinda. All of them are grat...
Siddhartha was thus loved by everyone. He was a source of joy for everybody, he was a delight for them all. But he, Siddhartha, was not a source of joy for himself, he found no delight in himself.
Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
Siddhartha gave his garments to a poor Brahman in the street. He worenothing more than the loincloth and the earth-coloured, unsown cloak.He ate only once a day, and never something cooked. He fasted...
Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself.
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.
Seeking means; to have a goal; but finding means; to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
Schön war die Welt, wenn man sie so betrachtete, so ohne Suchen, so einfach, so kinderhaft.
Remember, my dear: Noteternal is the world of appearances, not eternal, anything but eternal areour garments and the style of our hair, and our hair and bodies themselves.I’m wearing a rich man’s clot...
Quoth Siddhartha: What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding? How come? aske...
Perhaps this, that you are seeking all too much? That all your seeking is making you unable to find? How is this? Govinda asked. When a person seeks, Siddhartha said, it can easily happen that his eye...
Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimension...
Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome t...
Of course! When it's a question of anything stupid and pathetic and devoid of humor or wit,you're the man, you tragedian. Well, I am not. I don't care a fig for all your romantics ofatonement. You wan...
Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present. Siddhartha
Nothing is caused by demons. There are no demons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait, and fast.
No. I like to listen to music, but only the kind you play—absolute music, the kind where you can feel someone rattling the gates of Heaven and Hell. I think I like music because it has so little to do...