My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

Returning is the movement of the Way.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.