In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.

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

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.

The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.