I read this book when i was 19. I am now 51. Having just discovered Amazon Books, I was "surfing" and searching out titles did came to memory. I therefore read the lyrical version in German in Those now distant days, and spent much time looking for "Suleika", or "Zuleika". It Brought me great peace of mind at That Time, as I had to interrupt my college days in order to enter the Army and go to Vietnam. The book reads like the flowing river, and is in some ways to eternal story of Search for Meaning in Life and realization. Like Sidhartha our search for meaning Often ends at the beginning. Ultimately, we return to the basic and simple truths That Were there when we were born. Growing up is a kind of struggle. Sidhartha is a story of idealism and Virtue That Survives Ignorance, futility and evil. If in the end, we did retain idealism, our lives can be heroic and our conscience pure. Sometimes, I remember and recall the words: "From Sidhartha to Sidhartha is my coming and my going." It is a book of haunting beauty and depth of meaning. WHL / Bellevue
