First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

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.

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

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