MOC : [[SPIRITUALITÉ]] Date : 2023-01-15 Auteur : [[Hermann Hesse]] Source : [[3 GARDEN/Notes/Siddhartha]] *** - The opposite of every truth is just as true! That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one-sided, all just one half, all lacks completeness, roundness, oneness. ([Location 1471](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09YRG1R2N&location=1471)) - Or perhaps what I meant was, that love this very stone, and the river, and all these things we are looking at and from which we can learn. I can love a stone, Govinda, and also a tree or a piece of bark. This are things, and things can be loved. But I cannot love words. Therefore, teachings are no good for me, they have no hardness, no softness, no colours, no edges, no smell, no taste, they have nothing but words. Perhaps it are these which keep you from finding peace, perhaps it are the many words. Because salvation and virtue as well, Sansara and Nirvana as well, are mere words, Govinda. There is no thing which would be Nirvana; there is just the word Nirvana." ([Location 1507](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09YRG1R2N&location=1507))