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“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 [the true soul which transcends reality], that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy that the man of knowledge, than learning.”

“He lived a good life, his words were wise; fine and noble thoughts dwelt in his head—but even he who knew so much…was he at peace? Was he not also a seeker, insatiable? Did he not go to the holy springs with an insatiable thirst…One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking—a detour, error.

These were Siddhartha’s thoughts; his thirst, his sorrow.”