Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.