Sublime

Hermann Hesse s’était fait naturaliser suisse dès 1924. Au cours des quelque quarante années qui suivirent, il quitta de moins en moins Montagnola. À sa porte venaient parfois frapper des pèlerins qui tantôt s’appelaient Thomas Mann ou André Gide, et qui tantôt étaient de jeunes lecteurs inconnus. C’est à Montagnola que Hesse devait s’éteindre le 9

Now, if I had been Kamaswami, I should have departed immediately feeling very annoyed when I saw I was unable to make a purchase, and time and money would indeed have been lost. But I spent a number of good days, learned much, had much pleasure and did not hurt either myself or others through annoyance or hastiness.

songeait que ce Goldmund qui le regardait du fond de l’eau n’était plus depuis longtemps le Goldmund du monastère ou le Goldmund de Lydia et n’était pas davantage resté le Goldmund des forêts. Il se disait que lui-même, comme tous les hommes, s’écoulait, se transformait sans cesse pour se dissoudre enfin, tandis que son image créée par l’artiste re

See, I’m no scholar. I have no special skill in speaking or thinking. I only understand listening and piety; I’ve learned nothing else. If I were able to say and teach this, I might be a wise man, but as it stands, I am only a ferryman, and it is my task to ferry people across the river.

He who remains in himself cannot find the Master; he who would find him must let the strength of his soul—his heart’s blood—flow into all he does, into his active feet.

To be obedient like this (not to an external command, only to the voice), to be ready like this, was both good and necessary. Nothing else was necessary.

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