I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.

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

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 in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.