In his later years he returned to the life-form of his religious days, but not WITHIN the religion, and now, in my later years I’m in a similar position, remaining totally outside anything like “religion,” but again spending great portions of my time in a search for truth and meaning in life. I spent four years my undergraduate college days in the seminary and within a year after that was a non-religious atheist and have remained so ever since. Three years after his move away from family and home he actually left his religion fairly much in the background and moved more fully into the secular world. Eventually he went off to seek a “higher” form of his religion as he saw it after high school I entered the seminary to become a priest. His father deeply influenced his early spiritual life my inspirations were two priests in the parish where I grew up through high school. But so many other things overlapped or had, for me, striking similarities. He grew up in India in a Hindu religious situation I grew up within Roman Catholicism in the U.S. There was so much in Siddhartha’s life and journey that is my story too Rather, it was like a dialogue, a looking into the mirror at a vague and indistinct self. Reading this novel was not like a typical read of a novel for me, not even a very fine or moving one. Book review - By Hesse, Hermann – SIDDHARTHA> Reviews of Nobel Prize winner
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