Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.