Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

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.

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

The highest truth cannot be put into words.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.