Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.