Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

The world is won by those who let it go.

To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.