You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.