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Siddhartha is a quiet, philosophical novel about one man’s search for truth, peace, and self-understanding. It is not a fast-paced story, but it has a calm depth that stays with you. Hermann Hesse shows that wisdom cannot simply be taught by teachers, books, religions, or doctrines. it has to be lived and experienced. The writing is simple, spiritual, and reflective. A short book, but one with a lot to think about.

Ch. Awakening: “The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing - I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing myself… I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find the secret behind the ruins… Meaning and reality are not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.”