From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny. There shone in his face the serenity of knowledge, of one who is no longer confronted with conflict of desires, who has found salvation, who is in harmony with the stream of events, with the stream of life, full of sympathy and compassion, surrendering himself to the stream, belonging to the unity of all things. (p. 136)
“When someone is seeking,”, said Siddhartha, “it
happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is
unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking
of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with
his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be
receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for
in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.” (p. 140)
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922), Bantam Books
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922), Bantam Books
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