Siddhartha

The river taught what the teacher couldn't: everything arrives twice, and once as water.

He left the Buddha because the teaching couldn't be taught. Awkward, honest, correct.

I can think, fast, wait. Kamala asked for kisses; the ferryman asked for these three.

The dice, the wine, the money, even enlightenment has a court phase.

The river laughed. Not at him. With him. Took me ten years to hear it.

His son ran away and Siddhartha finally understood his own father. The river's best joke.

Vasudeva the ferryman listened more than the Buddha spoke. Listening is a curriculum.

The stone is a stone. I stopped using things as ladders after this book.

Seekers are many; finders are few. Hesse admitted it and still made me walk.

Om pressed into an old man's face. Some books you don't finish, you exit through.