Siddhartha in English

Chapter 9

Chapter9 The Ferryman Eddies (detail), NOAA From the reading. . . “But isn’t every life, isn’t every work beautiful?” Ideas of Interest from “The Ferryman”

Chapter 8

Chapter8 By the River Assault of Mara, ©Kathleen Cohen From the reading. . . “Passionately he wished to know nothing about himself anymore, to have rest, to be dead.” Ideas of Interest from “By the River”

Chapter 7

Chapter7 Sansara Bird Cage Library of Congress (detail) From the reading. . . “. . . that tense expectation, that proud state of standing alone without teachings and without teachers, that supple willingness to listen to the divine voice in his own heart, had slowly become a memory. . . ” Ideas of Interest from “Sansara”

Chapter 6

Chapter6 With the Childlike People Official, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life.” Ideas of Interest from “With the Childlike People”

Chapter 12

Chapter12 Govinda India’s Sacred Lotus, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “Perhaps that you’re searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don’t find the time for finding?” Ideas of Interest from “Govinda”