Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

Running water never grows stale.

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.