“I do not seek to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let [them] be content with such feats!” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Gautama Buddha 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
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha thought about his situation. Thinking was hard on him, he did not really feel like it, but he forced himself.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could… — 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
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you.… — 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
“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When someone is searching then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Truly, nothing in the world has occupied my thoughts as much as the Self, this riddle, that I live, that I am… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The… — 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
“In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Yes Siddhartha,' he said. 'Is this what you mean: that the river is in all places at once, at its source and… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“But he, Siddhartha, was not a source of joy for himself, he found no delight in himself. Walking the rosy paths of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A goal stood before Siddhartha, a single goal: to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishing, empty of dreams, empty of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“How deaf and stupid have I been!" he thought, walking swiftly along. "When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Govinda said: "But what you call thing, is it something real, something intrinsic? Is it not only the illusion of Maya, only… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
“but what is it you wanted to learn from the teachings and teachers, and those who taught you so much, what could… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Kamala did not try to find him. She was not surprised when she learned that Siddhartha had disappeared.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha” — 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
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No… — 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
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had… — Anonymous 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
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