Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

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.

If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.