-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.
When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
-Your soul is the whole world.
-My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.