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I am a star in the firmamentthat observe the world, despises the worldand consumed in its heat.I am the sea by night in a stormthe sea shouting that a...more

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Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered...more

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Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?"Vasudeva's face was filled with a bright ...more

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... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, ever...more

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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to desp...more

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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source a...more

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You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

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The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

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We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, but official duties left him no time for such a tas...more