When someone is seeking, 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 og 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, and 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 you nose.
A path lie before you, which you are called to follow.
... I have had thoughts and knowledge here and there. Sometimes, for an hour or for a day, I have become aware of knowledge, just as one feels life in one's heart...
...I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. But it was right that it should be so; my eyes and heart acclaim it. i had to experience despair. I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to the thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again. To sleep again and to awaken again refreshes again. I had to become a fool again in order to find Atman in myself. I had to sin in order to live again...
I am indeed old, but I have never ceased seeking. That seems to be my destiny...
There is no such thing as time; present only exist for it, neither the shadows of the past nor the shadow of the future.
Your soul is the whole world...
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately. They are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish and yet it pleases us. And seems that what is of value and wisdom to one man is nonsense to another
A path lie before you, which you are called to follow.
... I have had thoughts and knowledge here and there. Sometimes, for an hour or for a day, I have become aware of knowledge, just as one feels life in one's heart...
...I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. But it was right that it should be so; my eyes and heart acclaim it. i had to experience despair. I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to the thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again. To sleep again and to awaken again refreshes again. I had to become a fool again in order to find Atman in myself. I had to sin in order to live again...
I am indeed old, but I have never ceased seeking. That seems to be my destiny...
There is no such thing as time; present only exist for it, neither the shadows of the past nor the shadow of the future.
Your soul is the whole world...
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately. They are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish and yet it pleases us. And seems that what is of value and wisdom to one man is nonsense to another
SIDDHARTHA
Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse
I'm a seeker... which makes me not a finder...
ReplyDeleteanyway, trials always exist and based from a book I'm reading, I realized that not everyone on the top have it all...
we ought to just do our best and rise up to meet the challenge. hope it helps. ;-)
i couldn't distinguish myself from both choices.... but in either way, i guess i'm bound to find something..
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