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

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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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Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

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

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All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.

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Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.

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The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.

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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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