You're not your possessions, your desires, your habits, your fears, you're not even your body. You're simply nobody. Revel in the freedom of it.(Barefoot Doctor)
Keep balanced on both the foot that advances and the foot that retreats. Understand that retreat does not go backwards and advance does not go forwards.
To bear that which you think you cannot bear is really to bear.
Truth has no fixed abode; it's a living thing, more alive, more dynamic than anything the mind can think of, so there can be no path to it.
Fine horses can travel a hundred miles a day, but they cannot catch mice like terriers or weasels. All creatures have gifts of their own.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
When inner and outer move as one, the harmony of wholeness is experienced.
Each moment that passes changes you. You do not, cannot possess even yourself. How can you hope to possess anyone or anything else?
To see beyond all boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences.
The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying. (St Anthony)
In moments of darkness and pain, remember all is cyclical.
Sit quietly behind your wooden door:
Spring will come again.
(Loy Ching Yuen)
Pressure
When you no longer resist them,
they no longer master you,
for their power over you is derived solely
from the force you pit against them.
(Alan Watts)
Acceptance is irrelevant; we will die whether we accept it or not. Realising that there is nothing you can do about it is very important.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. (Khalil Gibran)
There is no more difficult journey than the journey to the self.
When beauty is recognised as beauty, ugliness is created. When good is recognised as good, bad is created. (Lao Tzu)
Proper lightness springs from the root of heaviness. Proper action springs from the root of stillness.
If a traveller can remain calm and peaceful throughout the ordeals of an arduous journey, Then how much more is required of a leader in the heat of a crisis?
Without heaviness, lightness is frivolous. Without stillness, action is impetuous.
To me, real mastery is ease and effortlessness, with precision in movement and a realisation of one's own limitations. (John Painter)
Guilt warns us there is a gap between our values and our actions.
Intelligence simply means ability to respond, because life is a flux.
You have to be aware and to see what is demanded of you, what is the challenge of the situation. The intelligent person behaves according to the situation and the stupid according to ready-made answers.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you nonetheless tell the truth. (Nietzsche)
Sacrifice the plum tree to preserve the peach tree.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. (Anais Nin)