Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.