"To love it, and be glad to belong to it..."

“In every truth the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity…
But the world around us is never one-sided. Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people----eternal life.
It is not possible to see how far another is on the way.

Therefore it seems to me that everything that exists is good---- death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. Everything is necessary.

I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property, and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it.”

----------------From "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse