Mudrost, koju mudrac pokušava da saopšti, zvuči uvek kao ludost....Saznanje se može saopštiti ali ne i mudrost. Ona se može naći, u njoj se može živeti i biti ponesen njome, sa njom se mogu stvarati č...
Most people have no desire to swim until they are able to. Isn’t that a laugh? Of course they don’t want to swim! After all, they were born to live on dry land, not in water. Nor, of course, do they w...
Man braucht vor niemand Angst zu haben. Wenn man jemanden fürchtet, dann kommt es daher, daß man diesem Jemand Macht über sich eingeräumt hat.
Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness. Are you kidding?...
Let the things be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me.
Lament No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through day or night, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds.Mold after mold we fill and neve...
Je ne voulais qu'essayer de vivre ce que je portais en moi. Pourquoi était-ce si difficile?
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 one of the ferryman’s greatest virtues that, like few people, he knew how to listen.
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.
In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate...But in the midst of the freedom he had attained Harry suddenly became aware that his freedom was a death and that he s...
In his heart he heard the voice talking, which was newly awaking, and it told him: Love this water! Stay near it! Learn from it! Oh yes, he wanted to learn from it, he wanted to listen to it. He who w...
In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.
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...
In any case, the life of a drunk is presumably livelier than that of the ordinary well-behaved citizen. And then—I read that once somewhere—the life of a hedonist is the best preparation for becoming...
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within...
Ich wollte ja nichts als das zu leben versuchen, was von selber aus mir heraus wollte. Warum war das so sehr schwer?
Ich will mich nicht mehr töten und zerstücken, um hinter den Trümmern ein Geheimnis zu finden.
Ich sehe, du denkst mehr, als du einem sagen kannst. Wenn das nun so ist, dann weisst du aber auch, dass du nie ganz das gelebt hast, was du dachtest, und das ist nicht gut. Nur das Denken, das wir le...
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his...