Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Hate is only conquered by love.

Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next