Siddhartha

"He had left behind the last teacher to appear to him on his path, this highest and wisest of teachers, the holiest one, Buddha; he'd had to part even from him, unable to accept his doctrine."(Hesse, 33)








"That I know nothing of myself, that Siddhartha has remained such a stranger to me, such an unknown, comes from one cause, from a single cause: I was afraid of myself, was running away from myself!" (Hesse 34)


"When he have departed from Jetavana Grove this morning, the grove of the Subline One, already awakening, already on the path to himself, it had been his intention and had appeared to him only natural, matter of course, to return to the place of his birth and his father now that his years as an ascetic had ended."(Hesse 36)