The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

Bend and you will be straight.

If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.