Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.

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Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.

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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

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Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.

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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...

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It is important for me to know how to love the world, not to despise it, not to feel hatred towards it and myself, to look at it, at myself and at all beings with love, admiration and great respect.

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The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.

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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

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Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.

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Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

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