I Can Think I Can Wait I Can Fast Meaning

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"Chat betwixt Siddhartha, who has temporarily given up all worldly possessions in order to feel total poverty first hand, talks to a merchant.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is similar that" (said Siddhartha)

Ah, only if yous are without possessions, how tin you give?"

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instructions, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish."

Very well and what can yous give? What have you lot learned that you can give(the merchant asks of Siddhartha)

I can think, I can wait, I can fast."

Is that all?"

I think that is all."

And of what utilize are they? For example, fasting, what skilful is that?"

It is of dandy value, sir. If a man has nothing to swallow, fasting is the nearly intelligent affair he tin do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would take had to seek some kind of work today, either with you lot, or elsewhere, for hunger would take driven him. But, equally it is, Siddhartha tin can await calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in demand, he tin can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir."
― Siddhartha

"Do not believe in anything simply because you accept heard it. Exercise not believe in anything just because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because information technology is constitute written in your religious books. Exercise non believe in anything simply on the potency of your teachers and elders. Practise non believe in traditions because they accept been handed down for many generations. Merely later on observation and assay, when you detect that annihilation agrees with reason and is conducive to the expert and benefit of one and all, and so accept information technology and live up to it."

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― Siddhartha

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