Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength; He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.
The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.
A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.
When you feel like quitting think about why you started.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.