2 Quotes by Gunnar Decker

What a person reads, or how much he or she reads, is only of secondary importance. The only really important things was that one should always begin reading with a genuine sense of expectation, with complete immersion in the magic of the moment.

There is a whole swathe of nervous German professors who fear something like a Buddhist inundation and a decline of the intellectual West. Rest assured, the West will not collapse and Europe will never become a Buddhist empire. Anyone who reads the Buddha's speeches and converts to Buddhism as a result may well have thereby found some kind of solace for himself - yet in place of the path that the Buddha might show us, all that person has opted for is an emergency exit.