...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisf... - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

"I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions."

"Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him."

"I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood."

"One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error."

"I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today."