Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.