Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.

How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?