Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.