Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

Every step is on the path.

Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.