Madan

“He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to attach to their lives, the amount of passion in their joys and fears, the fearful but sweet happiness of being constantly in love. These people were all of the time in love with themselves, with women, with their children, with honours or money, with plans or hopes”
― hermann hesse, Siddhartha

“Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged...and forgiveness destroys the cage.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“A goal stood before Siddhartha, a single goal: to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishing, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow. Dead to himself, not to be a self any more, to find tranquility with an emptied heard, to be open to miracles in unselfish thoughts, that was his goal. Once all of the Self was overcome and had died, once every desire and every urge was silent in the heart, then the ultimate part of me had to awake, the innermost of my being, which is no longer Self—the great secret.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha