We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

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 dying for one.

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.