The art of love-giving and taking become one..

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is ….

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire..

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got..

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world..

If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had t….

Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the….

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was….

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all th….

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most s….

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us..

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming….

Words can not express the joy of new life..

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.

Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me..

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new.

Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water.….

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neuros….

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child..

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy..

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others..