Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. Gustav Meyrink More Quotes by Gustav Meyrink More Quotes From Gustav Meyrink Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. Gustav Meyrink dream sleep reality It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body. Gustav Meyrink track lasts writing I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down. Gustav Meyrink waiting-rooms tears goal