The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."