If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him.