Siddhartha (English)

by Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha practised self-denial, practised meditation,

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

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

Where strong and life changing line

‘Simple is the life which people lead in this world here,’

‘Stop scolding, dear friend! Nothing was ever achieved by scolding.