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Siddhartha: Contradictions and Enlightenment

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From: Peacework
Date: 20070701
Author:Gerson, Joe

Siddhartha: Contradictions and Enlightenment

It's Sunday morning. I've written an initial draft of this review about one of my all time favorite books, Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse (1951). The review is due to Peacework's editors tomorrow morning. And, after an exhausting week, what I really want to do, uncharacteristically, is to kick back, to read, to play with my newly born grandson, and to take a walk on this beautiful day. I am struggling with the tension between my obligations and commitments to others, and savoring the What Is.

There lies the essential contradiction, more accurately ...

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