from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 4

"Most people are like falling leaf which is blown and turned around through the air, as it wavers, and tumbles to the ground.
But others, a few are like stars, they go on a fixed course, no wind reaches them, in themselves they have their law and their course.
Among all the learned men and Samanas, there was one of this kind, a perfected one, I'll never be able to forget him.
Gautama. "

from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 3

" He let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place where the causes lay, because to identify the causes, it seemed to him, is the very essence of thinking, any by this alone sensations turn into realizations and are not lost, but become entities and start to emit, like rays of light, what is inside of them."

from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 1

"On his way, humbly, deep in thought, his calm face neither happy nor sad. He seemed to smile quietly and inwardly. With a hidden smile, resembling that of a healthy child, he walked, wearing the robe and placing his feet just as all of his monks did, according to a precise rule.
But his face and his walk, his quietly lowered glance, his quietly dangling hand expressed peace, expressed perfection, did not search, did not imitate, breathed softly in an unwithering calm, an unwavering light, an untouchable peace.
He was Buddha."

from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 2

"It was the self, the purpose and essence of which I sought to learn. It was the self I wanted to free myself from, which I sought to overcome. But I was not able to overcome it, I could only deceive it, could only flee from it, hide from it.
Truly, no thing in this world has kept my thoughts thus busy as this my very own self, this mystery of my being alive, of my being one and being separated and isolated from all others, of my being Siddhartha!

And there is nothing in this world I know less about that about myself, about Siddhartha!"