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learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.”
love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, or finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen.
Siddhartha does nothing: he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring. He is drawn; he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. This is what Siddhartha has learned among the Samanas.
Everyone can perform magic; everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, to wait, and to fast.”
He always seems to be merely playing with business affairs; they never fully become a part of him and they never rule over him. He is never afraid of failure; he is never upset by a loss.”
Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaf that is blown and is turning around through the air, wavering and tumbling to the ground. But others, a few, are like stars: they go on a fixed course, no wind reaches them, and in themselves they have their law and their direction.
He learned to pay attention closely with a quiet heart, with patience, and with an open soul devoid of passion, wishes, judgment, and opinions.
Nothing was and nothing will be: everything is, and everything is present and has existence.”
(childlike people, businessmen, warriors, or women), they did not seem as alien to him as they once had. He understood them and shared their lives, which were not guided by thoughts and insight, but only by urges and wishes.
