To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

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

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.