When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

To be worn out is to be renewed.

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

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

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.