Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.
When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.
Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.
The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.
He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
Faith is stronger than so-called reality.
The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.
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