People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.

He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

To know and not to do is not yet to know.

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

. . . 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.