Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.