“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
—Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
July 2012
“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”
—Hermann Hesse
“Laws have no moral content, they merely symbolize conduct that does. These symbol junkies are always yelling about how we’ve got to respect the law, but you never hear one of them say anything about respecting fellow beings. If we respected each other, if we respected animals and if we respected the land, then we could dispense with laws and cut the middle man out of morality.”
—Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction
