“The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.”

The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Silence, and non action are the root of all things.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.

The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

IIFA is always involved in charity, and that’s why it’s a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them.

It is like living with your wife, with whom you are in love and you are intensely involved in, but you also have tensions. And their position is that they want to deny that these tensions exist.

I want to be involved in things I can be really proud of. There’s a lot of bad films being made and I don’t understand how they got the money for it.

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen.

That involves the establishment of a governing council, which is to take power away from Bashar Assad,

When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.