“One accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.

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?

Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

If you want to know me, Look inside your heart.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

And more so now, since having a family – I don’t seek out any other acceptance.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

It’s all about loving what you got and rocking it.

Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.