Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.