As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.