Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.