Hesse tells us: no doctrine, no word, no thought, no substitute for the real experience. Even if (especially if) we confront in the real we have to go through trials where our passions, our follies, our fears, our ties, our suffering remind us, remind us undeniably bind us to our human condition.
"I learned that I had to go through the most shameful of despair to curb my aspirations and passions, to love the world, not to be confused with this imaginary world desired by me and which I compared myself or with the kind of perfection that my mind imagined; I learned to take it as it is, to love. "
"The words do not serve the mysterious sense of things, they still distort more or less what we say. (...) That's why I make no account of doctrines. They have neither hard nor soft, no color ; no smell, no taste, they have only one thing, words Maybe this is why you can not seem to find peace you go astray in the labyrinth of sentences "...
And the magnificent passage
"Whatever came near perfection and always should bear the traces of its last bruise, yet it seemed to him that these simple men were his brothers, their vanities, their lusts and through lost their ridiculous in his eyes, they were worth the hardly to be understood, to be loved and even worshiped. The blind love of a mother for her child, the foolish presumption of a father blinded by his affection for his only son, the irresistible and crazy desire that experiences a flirtatious young woman to adorn jewelry to attract self admirers eyes of men, all of these needs, all these childish, all these aspirations naive, unreasonable, but whose realization gives life a powerful element of force, now seemed more eyes to things Siddharta so negligible if childish. "
Finally this beautiful passage on time; so well said ...
"Oh all suffering she was not in time;! Any torture oneself, all fear, not as they were in the time Is all that the world weighed on us? where we did not disappear was hostile and not surmounted as soon as we had overcome time, as soon as by the thought we could ignore the time? "
... But are wary of words ;-)
