Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.
Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.
Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery – a process without end.
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.
When you’re talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you’d better train every part of your body!
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
I’m a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
Learn it all, then forget it all.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.