“The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.”

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.

To have a human form is a joyful thing.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

So we responded, as part of a coalition, at the request of the legitimate government of Yemen, and we stepped in to support them.

When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They’re always responding to what is happening culturally.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.