Siddhartha famous quotes

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They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
-- Hermann Hesse

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I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
-- Hermann Hesse

#Wisdom #Yoga #Siddhartha
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 from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.
-- Hermann Hesse

#Heart #Order #Siddhartha
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
-- Hermann Hesse

#Siddhartha #Secret #Want
Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!
-- Hermann Hesse

#Siddhartha #Facts #Alive
Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
-- Hermann Hesse

#Fighting #Fate #Siddhartha
You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.
-- Hermann Hesse

#Fall #Tired #Siddhartha
I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills.
-- Hermann Hesse

#Skills #Water #Siddhartha

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