Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he al….

I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only ….

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 atroph….

The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one si….

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, ….

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates….

If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltere….

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace wit….

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but t….

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everythin….

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. ….

Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, ….

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame..

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 ….

That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be hap….

Solitude is independence..

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe..

In the beginning was the myth..

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission..

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps..

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the ….