For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal..

Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, s….

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified..

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as on….

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself..

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper in….

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky..

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still..

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion..

Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the….

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better..

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely h….

If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the de….

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the ….

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish..

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life..

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage..

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions..

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a lit….

Happiness is love, nothing else..

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults..