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“[Rhobert’s] house is a dead thing that weighs him down…Life is water that is being drawn off…The dead house is stuffed…The stuffing is alive…The earth is round. Heaven is a sphere that surrounds it. Sink where you will. God is a Red Cross Man with a dredge and a respiration-pump who’s waiting for you at the opposite periphery. God built the house. He blew His breath into its stuffing.“

“Had a Samana or a Brahmin ever feared that someone could come and strike him and rob him of his knowledge, of his piety, of his power for depth of thought? No because they belong to himself, and he can only give of them what he wishes, and if he wishes…One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.”

“All this, all this yellow and blue, river and wood…it was no longer meaningless and the chance diversities of the appearances of the world…if the One and Divine in Siddhartha secretly lived in blue and river, it was just the divine art and intention that there should be yellow and blue, there sky and wood— Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.”

“—The terrestrial crust of earth which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. Millions of kilograms of force pounding up from earth’s core on the inside to meet the cold air of the world and stop, as we do, just in time.”