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.

He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.

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

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

Its name-what passes not away.

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.