14 quotes found
“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”
“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
“I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.”
“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in e...”
“...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.”
“He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.”
“Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart...”
“Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events,...”
