Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap
Hermann HesseI have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".
Hermann HesseMeaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse