This by far my favorite excerpt from Herman Hesse's, Magister Ludi(Das Glasperlenspiel). In the following quote the word Castalia refers to a province...
"My life, as I saw it, was to be a transcendence, a progress from step to step, a series of realms to be traversed and left behind one after another,...
The following is a solution to the what and why questions of the human spirit of life.Since no religion may be deemed a tool for universal communication...
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings,...