Wir reden zuviel, sagte er mit ungewohntem Ernst. Das kluge Reden hat gar keinen Wert, gar keinen. Man kommt nur von sich selber weg. Von sich selber wegkommen ist Sünde. Man muss sich in sich selber...
Wieder stieg ich und wiederin den Brunnen, holde Sage von einst,höre fern deine goldenen Lieder,wie du lachst, wie du träumst, wie du leise weinst.Mahnend aus der Tiefe flüstert das Zauberwort;
Where was the knowledgeable one who wove his spell to bring his familiarity with the Atman out of the sleep into the state of being awake, into the life, into every step of the way, into word and deed...
When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human and the divine.
When someone is seeking, said Siddartha, It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only think...
What you could learn from me, you child, you have learned. Oh no, cried Goldmund, we didn’t become friends to end it now! What sort of friendship would that be, that reached its goal after a short dis...
What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rat...
Well, he said with equanimity, you see, in my opinion there is no point at all in talking about music. I never talk about music. What reply, then, was I to make to your very able and just remarks? You...
We who bore the mark, felt no anxiety about the shape the future was to take. All of these faiths and teachings seemed to us already dead and useless. The only duty and destiny we acknowledged was tha...
We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation.
We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don’t mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value...
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear....
Viele sagen, sie lieben die Natur. Das heißt, sie sind nicht abgeneigt, je und je ihre dargebotenen Reize sich gefallen zu lassen.Sie gehen hinaus und freuen sich über die Schönheit der Erde, zertrete...
Uno siempre puede volver a ser inocente si, en lugar de buscar la culpa en los demás, reconoce su dolor y su culpa y los lleva hasta el final.
Und auch das unglücklichste Leben hat seine Sonnenstunden und seine kleinen Glücksblumen zwischen dem Sand und Gestein. So war es denn auch bei dem Steppenwolf. Er war meistens sehr unglücklich, das i...
Una volta gli chiese: Hai appreso anche tu quel segreto del fiume: che il tempo non esiste?Un chiaro sorriso si diffuse sul volto di Vasudeva. Si, Siddharta rispose Ma è questo ciò che tu vuoi dire: c...
Una vaga desilusión fue debilitando y esfumando mis sentimientos y mis alegrías habituales; el jardín no tenía perfume, el bosque no me atraía, el mundo se extendía alrededor de mí como un saldo de tr...
Un veggente e un cieco: così camminavano a fianco; e se il cieco ignorava la sua cecità, il sollievo era solo suo.
U životu ne postoji nikakva dužnostosim dužnosti: biti srećan.Samo smo zato na svetu,a sa svim dužnostima,svim moralomi svim zapovedimaretko činimo jedno drugoga srećnim,jer i sebe time ne činimo sreć...
Troubled, yet also with laughter, he recalled that time. He remembered that at that time he had boasted of three things to Kamala, three noble and invincible arts: fasting, waiting and thinking.