Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
