Partner Analysis by Simone and Me.

"To penetrate to this point, to reach the Self, oneself Atman--could there be any other path worth seeking? Yet this was a path no one was showing him" (Hesse 6).


"He killed off his senses, he killed off his memory, he slipped from his Self to enter a thousand new shapes--was animal, was cadaver, was stone, was wood, was water--and each time he awakened he found himself once more. The sun would be shining, or else the moon, and he was once more a Self oscillating in the cycle; he felt thirst, overcame the thirst, felt new thirst" (Hesse 14).


"Nonetheless he scrutinized Guatama's head, his shoulders, his feet, his quietly dangling hand, and it seemed to him that every joint of every finger on this hand was doctrine; it spoke, breathed, wafted, and glinted Truth. Thisman, this Buddha, was genuine down to the gestures of his littlest finger, This man was holy. Never had Siddhartha revered a man like this, never had he loved a man as he loved this one" (Hesse 25-26).


"Meaning and being did not lie somewhere behind things; they lay within them, within everything" (Hesse 35).