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Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'Merchant: 'We...more

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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

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...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything th...more

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desires are not killed by fulfilling them

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Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the u...more

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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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And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillnes...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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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

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Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restless...more

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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

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I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

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Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.

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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...more

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