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asilver1115 's review for:
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
A journey of a man looking for enlightenment and the meaning of life, which seems to be all of the cliches, even if they are contradictory:
Life is cyclical. It will continue to repeat, birth/awakening, suffering/healing, death/destruction, back to birth/reawakening.
You must give everything away in order to gain anything (more money, more problems).
You can’t know happiness without sadness, good without evil.
Everyone is the same, we all experience the same things.
You must let others find their own way, especially with kids. Your previous mistakes will not protect or prevent others from making their own.
Who you were, are, and will be, are all happening at once and are always intertwined. Like how a river is always there and moving and changing, yet the same.
Everything, and anything, can be your teacher.
I am you, you are me, and we are all together, including god.
Sometimes all you need is someone to listen and sometimes all you need is to listen.
Above all, love is most important.
I read this in high school and while I don’t remember the impression it made on me then, I’m glad to have read it again a decade later and feeling that it is timeless for the message is true then and now.
Life is cyclical. It will continue to repeat, birth/awakening, suffering/healing, death/destruction, back to birth/reawakening.
You must give everything away in order to gain anything (more money, more problems).
You can’t know happiness without sadness, good without evil.
Everyone is the same, we all experience the same things.
You must let others find their own way, especially with kids. Your previous mistakes will not protect or prevent others from making their own.
Who you were, are, and will be, are all happening at once and are always intertwined. Like how a river is always there and moving and changing, yet the same.
Everything, and anything, can be your teacher.
I am you, you are me, and we are all together, including god.
Sometimes all you need is someone to listen and sometimes all you need is to listen.
Above all, love is most important.
I read this in high school and while I don’t remember the impression it made on me then, I’m glad to have read it again a decade later and feeling that it is timeless for the message is true then and now.