Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth..

All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return in….

For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, bel….

No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of ever….

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world..

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast..

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last for….

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of ….

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimis….

For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and….

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like….

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible.

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….

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it..

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….

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society compos….

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with ….

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and for….

He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests d….

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone..

In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and conti….