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

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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and tea...more

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Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

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There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

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Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

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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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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

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One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things a...more

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I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost stren...more

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Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image i...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