Being Free

'When someone seeks,' Siddhartha answered, 'then it happens all too easily that his eyes will see only the thing he is seeking, that he cannot find anything, cannot let anything in, because he is always thinking only of that thing he seeks, because he has a goal, because he is possessed by the goal.  Seeking means: having a goal.  But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.  You, Venerable One, may indeed be a seeker, for striving toward your goal, there is much you do not see which is right before your eyes.'

-Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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