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

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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

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He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the ...more

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An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. The reali...more

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There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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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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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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An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his wayforward, no matter where it led. The realiz...more

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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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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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For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and w...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