Chapter8 By the River Assault of Mara, ©Kathleen Cohen From the reading. . . “Passionately he wished to know nothing about himself anymore, to have rest, to be dead.” Ideas of Interest from “By the River”

Chapter6 With the Childlike People Official, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life.” Ideas of Interest from “With the Childlike People”

Chapter10 The Son Boy, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “. . . he preferred the suffering and worries of love to happiness and joy without the boy.” Ideas of Interest from “The Son”

Chapter12 Govinda India’s Sacred Lotus, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “Perhaps that you’re searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don’t find the time for finding?” Ideas of Interest from “Govinda”

Chapter7 Sansara Bird Cage Library of Congress (detail) From the reading. . . “. . . that tense expectation, that proud state of standing alone without teachings and without teachers, that supple willingness to listen to the divine voice in his own heart, had slowly become a memory. . . ” Ideas of Interest from “Sansara”

Chapter11 Om Meditative Buddha, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “They lacked nothing . . . except for one little thing, a single, tiny, small thing: the consciousness, the conscious thought of the oneness of all life.” Ideas of Interest from “Om”

Chapter9 The Ferryman Eddies (detail), NOAA From the reading. . . “But isn’t every life, isn’t every work beautiful?” Ideas of Interest from “The Ferryman”

Chapter5 Kamala Kama: God of Love, ©Kathleen Cohen From the reading. . . “Now, he had to experience his self. . . But never, had he really found this self, because he had wanted to capture it in the net of thought.” Ideas of Interest from “Kamala”

Chapter4 Awakening Buddha, Antiquities Project From the reading. . . “It was the self, I wanted to free myself from, which I sought to over- come.” Ideas of Interest from “Awakening”

Chapter3 Gotama Buddha Preaching, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “Be aware of too much wisdom!” Ideas of Interest from “Gotama”

Chapter2 With the Samanas Two Figures, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “A goal stood before Siddhartha, a single goal: to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishing, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sor- row.” Ideas of Interest from “With the Samanas”

Chapter1 The Son of the Brahmin Priest Sitting, Library of Congress From the reading. . . “But where, where was this self, this innermost part, this ultimate part? It was not flesh and bone, it was neither thought nor consciousness, thus the wisest ones taught. So, where, where was it?” Ideas of Interest from “The Son of the Brahmin”