When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

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.

Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.