Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

A good calculator does not need artificial aids.