He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.
("Siddhartha")
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.Hermann Hesse
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 every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
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And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
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Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.
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