But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.