Sublime

Anyway, let it rest, my friend, and do not hurt yourself by scolding. If the day comes when you think: this Siddhartha is doing me harm, just say one word and Siddhartha will go on his way. Until then, however, let us be good friends.”

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is recommended by many guests in this book.

Too much knowledge had been holding him back, too many holy verses, sacrificial rules, self-castigation, and striving for this goal! He had always been full of arrogance, the most intelligent, the most zealous worker, one step ahead of the others, the knowing and spiritual one, the priest or the wise one. His self had retreated into this arrogance,

Age of the Feuilleton

With the Samanas, Siddhartha learned quite a bit, and learned how to go away from the self in many ways. He followed the method of self-dissolution through pain, whereby he suffered voluntarily and overcame the pain, hunger, thirst, or fatigue. He achieved self-dissolution through meditation, by the concentrated clearing of all perceptions from his

Mann ne révèle pas son nom dans le roman mais, quarante ans plus tard, il écrivit un superbe essai où il indiquait qu’Arthur Schopenhauer était cet auteur, avant de décrire quelle fut sa joie, à l’âge de trente-trois ans, de lire Schopenhauer pour la première fois. Il n’était pas seulement transporté par le style de Schopenhauer, qu’il décrit comme

He realized that one thing had left him, as a snake left its old skin; one thing which had accompanied him throughout his youth and used to be a part of him no longer existed inside him: the desire to have teachers and to listen to teachings.