Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Be curious, not judgmental.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.