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I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Learn, Student, Myself, Self-discovery, Personal Growth, Inner Wisdom

I want to learn from myself want to be my

I want to learn from myself want to be my

I want to learn from myself want to be my

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“For awakened human beings, there was no obligation – none, none, none at all – except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.”

Awakened, Obligation, Path, Spiritual Freedom, Self-discovery, Personal Journey

“Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.” “Are you kidding?” asked Govinda. “I’m not kidding. I’m telling you what I’ve found. Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.”

Wisdom, Knowledge, Experience, Communication, Understanding, Learning

“Many people say 'they love nature,' by which they mean they don't dislike the charms nature displays before them. They go on outings, delight in the beauty of the earth as they trample meadows and tear off flowers and sprigs, only to discard them or let them wilt at home. That is how they love nature.”

Nature, Love, Beauty, Environmental Critique, Human Hypocrisy, Superficial Appreciation

“To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.”

Enlightenment, Experience, Communication, Personal Truth, Ineffability, Inner Wisdom

“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 himself.”

Life, Road, Himself, Personal Journey, Self-discovery, Human Incompleteness

“A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.”

Identity, Adjustment, Self Discovery, Societal Roles, Authenticity, Personal Growth

“Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.”

Emptiness, Peace, Self, Detachment, Spiritual Goal, Transformation

“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 most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.”

Passion, Mystery, Fate, Love, Self Destruction, Human Vulnerability

“I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.”

Rucksack, Trousers, Live, Personal Freedom, Material Detachment, Unconventional Lifestyle

“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.”

Wander, Trees, Heart, Natural Connection, Existential Longing, Poetic Sensibility

“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 happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?”

Brother, Sister, Devil, Complementary Learning, Existential Unhappiness, Spiritual Kinship

“Whenever he is hungry and opens his bag, there are only pearls inside.”

Hungry, Pearls, Bag, Metaphorical Wealth, Spiritual Abundance, Material Lack

“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.”

Life, Joke, Catastrophe, Existential Despair, Nihilistic Perspective, Cosmic Absurdity

“I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.”

Learn, Student, Myself, Self-discovery, Personal Growth, Inner Wisdom

“He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But he learned more from the river than Vasudeva could teach him. He learned from it continually. Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions.”

Learning, River, Listening, Stillness, Wisdom, Openness

“Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.”

Birth, Human, Fish, Evolutionary Legacy, Personal Development, Existential Duality

“The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.”

Truth, Perspective, Relativity, Insight, Authenticity, Subjectivity

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

Spirit, Flesh, Crucified, Spiritual Embodiment, Universal Suffering, Individual Divinity

“For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead.”

Extraordinary, Spirits, Winged, Human Potential, Spiritual Aspiration, Universal Archetype

“You broke through the humor of my little theater and tried to make a mess of it, stabbing with knives and spattering our pretty picture-world with the mud of reality.”

Theater, Reality, Mud, Artistic Disruption, Existential Confrontation, Psychological Defense