The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.