GUIDES
Encouraging Quotes 5
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it
When someone seeks, said Siddhartha, then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing
to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal
Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps