“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.”
― Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
― Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.”
― The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
― The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
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