Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.