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

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

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.