A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.