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.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

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.

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.