Siddhartha
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me.
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha
personne pour le montrer ce chemin, personne ne le savait, ni le père, ni les maîtres, ni les sages, ni les saints cantiques du sacrifice ! Ils savaient tout ces brahmanes et leurs livres sacrés, tout ; ils s’étaient occupés de tout et du reste : de la création du monde, des origines du langage, des aliments, de la façon d’aspirer et d’expirer, de
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