You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
Everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.
We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.
Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.
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 more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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