SIDDHARTHA

The Buddha went quietly on his way, lost in thought. His peaceful countenance was neither happy nor sad.

Siddhartha does nothing; he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he goes through the affairs of the world like the stone through water, without doing anything, without bestirring himself; he is drawn and lets himself fall. He is drawn by his goal, for he does not allow anything to enter his mind which opposes his goal.

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people—eternal life.

he learned from it how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, and an open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.

‘I can think, I can wait, I can fast.’

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

A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self.

the torment of the Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.