The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release. Can you see things as they are And let them be all on their own?

When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.