If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.