“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

Because of a great love, one is courageous

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

The Way to do is to be.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.”

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

The further one goes, the less one knows.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

We must be allowed to insult each other.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

We cannot allow ourselves to go on divided.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.