Philosophical
What if getting lost is how you find yourself?
In *Siddhartha*, the main character meets the Buddha himself. He hears the perfect teaching. He understands it completely. And then he walks away. Not because the teaching was wrong. Because knowing the answer isn't the same as living your way into it.
Wisdom cannot be passed on.— Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on always sounds like foolishness... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom." - Hermann Hesse, *Siddhartha*
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The thinker
Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss novelist and poet whose works explore the individual's search for self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment.
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