I can think, I can wait, I can fast — three skills for a free and happy life

What these words from Herrmann Hesse’s Siddharta mean to me and what they can mean to each of us.

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When the merchant Kamaswami asked the young monk Siddharta what he had learned, he answered: I can think, I can wait, I can fast.