For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

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

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

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.

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.