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Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

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At Night on the High SeasAt night, when the sea cradles meAnd the pale star gleamLies down on its broad waves,Then I free myself whollyFrom all activi...more

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There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Blüten geh'n Gedan...more

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I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

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Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or w...more

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It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

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Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Se...more

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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,...more

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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...more

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One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

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He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

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When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory had show...more

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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even mo...more