"I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions."
- Hermann Hesse
"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 ever..."
"Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him."
"...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still."
"You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect."
"Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner."
"...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with word..."
"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, t..."