He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.

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.