No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctr…

Hermann Hesse
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No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine. ✨ Hermann Hesse, Stanley Appelbaum (1998). Siddhartha, p.60, Courier Corporation
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