Siddhartha

he learned more from the river than Vasudeva could teach him. He learned from it continually. Above all, he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions.

Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness."

Peu à peu se développait et mûrissait en Siddhartha la notion exacte de ce qu’est la Sagesse proprement dite, qui avait été le but de ses longues recherches. Ce n’était somme toute qu’une prédisposition de l’âme, une capacité, un art mystérieux qui consistait à s’identifier à chaque instant de la vie avec l’idée de l’Unité, à sentir cette Unité par

Finally, Siddhartha learns to be still and to listen to the river of life. Patients learn in the course of telling their tales that they can discover themselves by becoming curious about the other struggling human beings with whom they live in the world. The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it