“To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.”

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.

One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.

If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.

The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.