La solitude est l'indépendance, je l'avais souhaitée et acquise au cours de longues années. Elle était froide, oh! oui, mais elle était calme, merveilleusement calme et immense comme l'espace silencie...
La serietà, caro mio, è una nota del tempo: nasce, te lo voglio confidare, dal sopravvalutare il tempo. Anch'io una volta stimavo troppo il tempo e desideravo però di arrivare a cent'anni. Ma nell'ete...
La nostra meta non è di trasformarci l'un l'altro, ma di conoscerci l'un l'altro e d'imparare a vedere e a rispettare nell'altro ciò che egli è: il nostro opposto e il nostro completamento.
La maggior parte degli uomini non vuol nuotare prima di saper nuotare. Spiritosa, vero? Certo che non vogliono nuotare, sono nati per la terra, non per l'acqua. E naturalmente non vogliono pensare: in...
Jis buvo neblogas vyras, geraširdis, malonus, švelnus, ko gero, labai romus vyras, galbūt šventasis - deja, ne šiomis savybėmis galėjai palenkti berniuką. Neįdomus jam atrodė tėvas, laikąs jė varganoj...
Je ne voulais qu'essayer de vivre ce que je portais en moi. Pourquoi était-ce si difficile?
Ja te uzimam za ozbiljno samo onda kad si Zlatousti. Ali, ti nisi uvijek Zlatosuti. Ne želim ništa drugo osim toga da sasma postaneš Zlatousti. Ti nisi naučnik, nisi redovnik-naučnik ili redovnik mogu...
Iz tog trenutka u kome je svijet oko njega iščiio, u kome se zatekao sam kao zvijezda na nebu, iz tog trena se zebnje i obeshrabrenja Sidarta je izronio i njegovo ja se još više zgusnulo. Bio je svjes...
It’s true that everybody reaches inevitabely what a real drive makes him look for. But in the middle of this obtained freedom Harry suddenly realized that he was alone, that the world left him alone i...
It's always difficult to be born. As you know, the bird must make an effort to break out of the egg. Think back and ask: Was the path really that difficult? Merely difficult? Wasn't it also beautiful?...
It was the self, the purpose and essence of which I sought to learn. It was the self, I wanted to free myself from, which I sought to overcome. But I was not able to overcome it, could only deceive it...
It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.
It was clear to the one speaking that each of his words was being allowed to enter into his listener, who sat there quietly, openly, waiting' not a single word was disregarded or met with impatience;...
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
It is good, he thought, to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the world and riches do not belong to the good things, I have already learned as a child. I hav...
Into being a priest, into this arrogance, into this spirituality, his self had retreated, there it sat firmly and grew, while he thought he would kill it by fasting and penance.
Intensity of life is only possible at the expense of self. But there is nothing members of the bourgeoisie value more highly than self, albeit only at a rudimentary stage of development. Thus, at the...
In reality, however, every ego, so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities....
In his youth when he was poor and had difficulty in earning his bread, he preferred to go hungry and in torn clothes rather than endanger his narrow limit of independence. He never sold himself for mo...
In fact, at times I preferred to live in the forbidden world, and frequently my return home to the bright realm, no matter how necessary and good that might be, was almost like a return to someplace l...