Alive Quote by Hermann Hesse

“Truly, nothing in the world has occupied my thoughts as much as the Self, this riddle, that I live, that I am one and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn from doctrines and teachers, and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Slower, he walked along in his thoughts and asked himself: "But what is this, what you have sought to learn from teachings and from…

— Hermann Hesse

“Having been pondering while slowly walking along, he now stopped as these thoughts caught hold of him, and right away another thought sprang forth…

— Hermann Hesse

The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to…

— Hermann Hesse

“but what is it you wanted to learn from the teachings and teachers, and those who taught you so much, what could they not…

— Hermann Hesse

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any…

— Daniel Tammet

“And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was only separated…

— Hermann Hesse

“For years he had been without a home and not felt it. Now he felt it. Up until now, even in the depths of…

— Hermann Hesse

“Out of this moment, where the world melted away all around him, where he appeared as the sole star in the sky, out of…

— Hermann Hesse

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing…

— Hermann Hesse