siddhartha

" when someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."

"wisdom is not communicable. the wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish."

" in every truth the opposite is equally true."

"never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. this only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real. time is not real, govinda. i have realized this repeatedly. and if time is not real, then the dividing line that seems to lie between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion."

"it seems to me that everything that exists is good-death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me."

"words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. and yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another."